“The poetic image exists apart from causality.”
“The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche”
“The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.”
“But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.”
“I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.”
“We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”