Chinese Poetry - Words are like sprouts - Catholic Civilization | La Civiltà Cattolica

Classical Chinese poetry depicts visions. This profound connection between thought and image, typical of poetic experience, has influenced the Western imagination in various ways. “It is beyond doubt that the use of ideograms makes it impossible for us, as you do, to separate thought from the plastic sensibility to which it is always connected”: So says André Malraux, one of the legendary figures of 20th-century France, through the mouth of a yo…