Built upon Love

"The world of humanity tolerates ambiguity, even madness and confusion, but not lack of meaning. Despite importante differences between spoken or written languages and other "plastic" or even "musical languages", they are all endowed with a communicative force. Because the poet cherishes the ambiguity of the word, poetry is closer to spoken language than to prose. While the prose writer imprisons language, the poet sets language free.
Likewise, while technology uses up matter to make utensils, poetic making sets matter free. Poetic matter has color, rhythm and texture, yet it is always something else: it is image.
A poetic work is a peculiar form of communication. Without ceasing to be language, it transcends language. A building will also be a poem if it expresses something other than its parts, its materials, its contruction process, its ideology, or the identity of its owner or inhabitants."

"To convey a moment of insight, a prose writer describes it. A poet, in contrast, evokes an experience, with all its contradictory qualities. Similarly, the architect uses rhythm, light and shadow, to re-create our first encounter with depth, the wondrous place of human dwelling that cannot be conveyed through descriptive geometry, a photographe, or an illusionistic reproduction. The experience is always surprising, like a clearing in the forest that we identify with a place in our dreams."

in "Built upon Love - Architectural Longing after Ethics ans Aesthetics"
by Alberto Péres-Gómez, MIT Press