3 Quotes by Hilary L. Fink

Bergson considered poetry to be born of intuition, and words that were “at first, only signals” are thus converted into instruments of art. Russian modernists treat words in much the same way

Bergson's emphasis on the importance of art for the clear seeing of reality paralleled the modernist call for new modes of artistic perception and expression

Interestingly, the nature of the Russian language itself – its use of perfective and imperfective aspect – reflects a very Bergsonian duality between objective and subjective time, or between time considered spatially and time as duration