He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that tu...rns up in a footnote ... takes on the character of divine revelation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nation...s. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poetic experience, like the religious one, is a mortal leap: a change of nature that is also a return to our original nature. ...Hidden by the profane or prosaic life, our being suddenly remembers its lost identity; and then that "other" that we are appears, emerges. Poetry and religion are a revelation. But the poetic word dispenses with divine authority. The image is sustained by itself, without the need to appeal to rational demon stration or to the protection of a supernatural power: it is the revelation of himself that man makes to himself. The religious word, on the contrary, aims to reveal a mystery that is, by definition, alien to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original rel...ation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plasti...c and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes seeking the response of eyes Bring out the stars, bring out the flowers,... Thus concentrating earth and skies So none need be afraid of size. All revelation has been ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while alleg...ory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »