Pierre Reverdy

From Plastic Tub

French poet, famous for his thesis of long-distance collision, known as the Reverdyan Thesis, which intrigued Addisson and Adid a greal deal during the formulating the basic tenets of the AA.

The Image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison, but from two realities, more or less distant, brought together. The more the relation between the two realities is distant and accurate, the stronger the image will be--the more it will posses emotional power and poetic reality.

Two realities that have no relation whatever cannot be brought together effectively. No image is created. An image is not strong because it is brutal or fantastic--but because the association of ideas is distant and accurate.