God Does Not Ask For 'religious' Art

It Has Never Been Recommended To Confuse "loving" With "seeking To Please"... ...salome Pleased Herod's Guests; I Can Hardly Believe She Was Burning With Love For Them. As For Poor John The Baptist... ...she Certainly Did Not Envelop Him In Her Love.

Poetic Experience Is Distinct In Nature From Mystical Experience. Because Poetry Emanates From The Free Creativity Of The Spirit,it Is From The Very Start Oriented Toward Expression, And Terminates In A Word Proffered, It Wants To Speak; Whereas Mystical Because It Emanates From The Deepest Longing Of The Spirit Bent On Knowing, Tends Of Itself Toward Silence And Internal Fruition. Poetic Experience Is Busy With The Created World And The Enigmatic And Innumerable Relations Of Existents With One Another, Not With The Principle Of Being.

The First Step To Be Taken By Everyone Who Wishes To Act Morally Is To Decide Not To Act According To The General Customs And Doings Of His Fellow-men.

The Poet Knows Himself Only On The Condition That Things Resound In Him, And That In Him, At A Single Awakening, They And He Come Forth Together Out Of Sleep.

The Light Of Common Sense Is Fundamentally The Same Light As That Of Science, That Is To Say, The Natural Light Of The Intellect. But In Common Sense This Light Does Not Return Upon Itself By Critical Reflection, And Is Not Perfected By What We Shall Learn To Know As A Scientific Habit.