writing

Poetry is widely believed to be the ‘expression of personality’: the end which we are supposed to pursue in reading is a certain contact with the poet’s soul; and ‘Life’ and ‘Works’ are simply two diverse expressions of this single quiddity.

Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject [that is, the author] slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.