Halfway between the poem and the paramecium

The dream is halfway between the poem and the paramecium. Like the paramecium, it is a product of nature, created not by man’s will. But like the poem, it is a product of art, dependent upon man’s imagination.

-James Hillman

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.
– James Hillman

A presence that disturbs

Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.

“… And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.”