We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.
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