“Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.” IfsLittlesBeautifulPoetMereCloudsLiarsMakersHumankindWiserElegantVisionariesMadmenPerplexityFalsityUnknowing Book:Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad Source: Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.” WorldBelieveDoeSaidArtistOrderBeliefForceWishSharePoetUnderstoodVisionariesProvincesTolerable Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith