The image, in its simplicity, has no need of scholarship. It is
the property of a naïve consciousness; in its expression, it is
youthful language. The poet, in the novelty of his images, is always
the origin of language. To specify exactly what a phenomenology of the
image can be, to specify that the image comes before thought, we
should have to say that poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of
the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul. We should then have to
collect documentation on the subject of the dreaming consciousness.
-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, xiv-xx
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