Salmonlilies

Tag: Roland Barthes

  • The figure a poet is. Is a lover

    When I realize that common discourse takes possession of my other and restores that other to me in the bloodless form of a universal substitute, applied to all the things which are not here, it is as if I saw my other dead, reduced, shelved in an urn upon the wall of the great mausoleum…

  • I am not without you

    I see you, I hear you, I feel you – I know you. I pair and configure you among this/that within my grasp, you remain a mystery. Yet you are not without me; and I am not without you. I call this “I without the other” the negative, the false.I call this “I with you”…