“I wrote silences, nights; I noted the inexpressible. I fixed vertigos.”

Original: J’écrivais des silences, des nuits, je notais l’inexprimable. Je fixais des vertiges. — The poet describes an attempt to give lasting form to experiences that ordinarily resist language. · A Season in Hell, Alchemy of the Word, 1873 (French)

• Expression
• Silence
• Writing