It is as if the poet could still sense, beneath the words of contemporary speech and in the images that crowd in upon his imagination, the ghostly presence of bygone spiritual worlds, and possessed the capacity to make them come alive again. As
From Carl Jung’s Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works Volume 5)
Gerhart Hauptmann says: “Poetry is the art of letting the
primordial word resound through the common word.”
The Word
James RQ Clark 