
“It began in images and it ended in symbolism.”
Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 160
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)
Three Imagist Poets, The Little Review, 1916
“It began in images and it ended in symbolism.”
Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 160
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)
L'Influence du symbolism francais sur la poesie Americaine(de 1910 a 1920), Champion, Paris 1929 trans William Pratt and Anne Rich AMS , New York 1985 ISBN 9780404615796
On Mind and Thought (1993), p. 34
Posthumous publications
Context: It is astonishingly beautiful and interesting, how thought is absent when you have an insight. Thought cannot have an insight. It is only when the mind is not operating mechanically in the structure of thought that you have an insight. Having had an insight, thought draws a conclusion from that insight. And then thought acts and thought is mechanical. So I have to find out whether having an insight into myself, which means into the world, and not drawing a conclusion from it is possible. If I draw a conclusion, I act on an idea, on an image, on a symbol, which is the structure of thought, and so I am constantly preventing myself from having insight, from understanding things as they are.
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 350
La France fut faite à coups d'épée. La fleur de lys, symbole d'unité nationale, n'est que l'image d'un javelot à trois lances.
in La France et son armée.
Writings
The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays (1971).
Other Quotes
Letter to Markus Fierz (1948)
Context: When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of "symbolic images." The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i. e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.