Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
About Rene Daumal
Rene Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogueas well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
French poet and novelist
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content… it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
French poet and novelist
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
French poet and novelist
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
French poet and novelist