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The Poet, However, Uses These Two Crude, Primitive, Archaic Forms Of Thought (simile And Metaphor) In The Most Uninhibited Way, Because His Job Is Not To Describe Nature, But To Show You A World Completely Absorbed And Possessed By The Human Mind.

Between Religion's This Is And Poetry's But Suppose This Is, There Must Always Be Some Kind Of Tension, Until The Possible And The Actual Meet At Infinity.

Literature As A Whole Is Not An Aggregate Of Exhibits With Red And Blue Ribbons Attached To Them, Like A Cat-show, But The Range Of Articulate Human Imagination As It Extends From The Height Of Imaginative Heaven To The Depth Of Imaginative Hell.

It Is Of The Essence Of Imaginative Culture That It Transcends The Limits Both Of The Naturally Possible And Of The Morally Acceptable.

It Seems Clear That The Bible Belongs To An Area Of Language In Which Metaphor Is Functional, And Were We Have To Surrender Precision For Flexibility.