… a sheet of white paper, on the other hand, holds all possibilities in its simplicity. Perhaps that is what makes it so difficult to begin. The author knows that every written word means a limitation. Even the most successful text is, in comparison with the perfection of the sheet of white paper, somewhat ridiculous and futile. Le langage ne se refuse qu’à une chose, c’est faire aussi peu de bruit que le silence, said Ponge in his notes on a poem by Mallarme… … “Art happens,” said Whistler, … but sometimes you have to meet it halfway … set off on a journey, break away from your body, go from limbs to lines, stride after stride, failing, wandering, ambling in anticipation of undiscovered word-places, treading away from fiber and fable and apple, finding a corresponding language for this journey, walking on…
Translated into English by Lynnette Polcyn
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