Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Introduction, sct. 2, 1960; tr. 1969.
-- Gaston Bachelard, (Jun 27 1884-1962), French philosopher; He worte The Pyschoanalysis of Fire, (La psychanalyse du feu).