Un jour paraîtront nus homme et femme.
…
Ce couple se pétrit se confond se sépare
En pleine pâte universelle: en eux s’unit
Et se dédouble le Principe des genèses
Que leur étreinte met en branle hors du temps (Sophia, 20)

[One day man and woman will appear naked.
…
This couple kneads itself blends separates
In the midst of the universal dough: in them comes together
And splits apart the Principle of all geneses
That their embrace sets in motion outside time].

Underlying this description is the conviction that poetry can give a much fuller insight into the origins of the universe than science, because the poet masters the sounds and rhythms of intuition, memory, and imagination, while the scientist relies merely on reason.

- Excerpted from From Babel to Pentecost: The Poetry of Pierre Emmanuel by Mary Anne O’Neil