The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.