"Poetry remakes and prolongs language;
every poetic language begins
by being a secret language, that is,
the creation of a personal universe,
of a completely closed world.
The purest poetic act seems to
re-create language from an
inner experience that …
reveals the essence of things."
every poetic language begins
by being a secret language, that is,
the creation of a personal universe,
of a completely closed world.
The purest poetic act seems to
re-create language from an
inner experience that …
reveals the essence of things."
- Mircea Eliade (1907 - 1986)
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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