Suggestion of a bar

Do you relate this to poetry?
There is nothing closer! It is tremendous! The poetic language of people, like Ronsard, is extraordinary. The choice of words, the bouquet of words without logical construction, is the same as that within a photo. Poetry and photography are much closer together than photography and painting. It is wonderful! You touch the exact thing, the unconscious side of this thing! And again, it is here that the poetry of Prévert was very close to photography. It is taking, within language, the used and worn-out expressions and setting them into a kind of ring so that they shine. This is marvellous. It is true poetry, not studied, not Lamartine. Oh, he can be so boring, Lamartine. Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard, Rabelais and Cendrars - they use images and they didn't mince their words. They were'ruthless! They exaggerated a little but they were right. They were not speaking in halftones and subtleties.
Robert Doisneau

Dialogue with Photography, Paul Hill & Thomas Cooper