Poetry embodies in its essence the complex interaction of being.
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
Kathleen Raine says: ‘Strangest of all is the ease with which the vision is lost, consciousness contracts, we forget over and over again, until recollection is stirred by some icon of that beauty. Then we remember and wonder why we ever forgot.’
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.