Metaphors Of Unity And Integration

Literature Speaks The Language Of The Imagination, And The Study Of Literature Is Supposed To Train And Improve The Imagination.

Physics Is An Organized Body Of Knowledge About Nature, And A Student Of It Says That He Is Learning Physics, Not Nature. Art, Like Nature, Has To Be Distinguished From The Systematic Study Of It, Which Is Criticism.

The Poet, However, Uses These Two Crude, Primitive, Archaic Forms Of Thought (simile And Metaphor) In The Most Uninhibited Way, Because His Job Is Not To Describe Nature, But To Show You A World Completely Absorbed And Possessed By The Human Mind.

I Don't See How The Study Of Language And Literature Can Be Separated From The Question Of Free Speech, Which We All Know Is Fundamental To Our Society.

The Fact That Creative Powers Come From An Area Of The Mind That Seems To Be Independent Of The Conscious Will, And Often Emerge With A Good Deal Of Emotional Disturbance In Their Wake, Provides The Chief Analogy Between Prophecy And The Arts... Some People Pursue Wholeness And Integration, Others Get Smashed Up, And Fragments Are Rescued From The Smash Of An Intensity That The Wholeness And Integration People Do Not Reach.