Endymion

There were two higher stages.”

“Father included poetry and music and art as part of that response to nature,”

“Father thought that true friendship between humans was on an even higher level than our response to nature, but that the highest level attainable was love.”

imaginative and sensuous response to nature

“It’s a fallible but human way of resonating to the universe—nature creates that energy of creation in us. For Father imagination and truth were the same thing.

“But there are Richer entanglements far

Life is brutal that way … the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

“The meanings of all motions, shapes, and sounds,”

all forms and substances/Straight homeward to their symbol-essences …”