Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
タグ: most, human, men, experience

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My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.
タグ: left, paper, soul, heart
The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.
タグ: without, difficult, others, speak
Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.
タグ: them, make, stone, me
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
タグ: unity, lie, poetry, good
The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.
タグ: action, tea, water, you
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