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By Kase Date: 2003 Apr 24 Comment on this Work [[2003.04.24.19.36.31622]] |
| "Has anyone at the end of the nineteenth century any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word 'inspiration'? If not, I will describe it. If one had smallest vestige of superstition left in one, it would hardly be possible completely to set aside the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece, or medium of an almighty power. The idea of revelation, in the sense which something profoundly convulses and upsets one becomes suddenly visible and audible with indescribable certainity and accuracy, describles the simple fact. One hears- one does not seek: one takes- one does not ask who gives: a thought suddenly flashes up like lightning, it comes with necessity, without faltering- I have never had a choice in the matter." |