For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
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The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.
There is only one state – admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological – in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that “I” and “you” are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact.
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.
