Nonmeaning Quotes

“The poetic is that which in every discourse can open up to the absolute loss of meaning, to the bottomlessness of the sacred, of nonmeaning, of play, to the loss of consciousness from which it awakens with a throw of the dice. Not an absence of meaning, which would one again subordinate poetry to discourse, but a nonmeaning in meaning, an affirmation of sovereignty. The temporal mode of this writing is the instant, not the point of full presence, the instant that slides and eludes between two presences, difference as elusive affirmation of presence.”
― Verena Andermatt Conley, Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine