Devalue Quote by Peter Redgrove

“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.” quote by Peter Redgrove — Download Open image

“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”

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“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which…

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“In fact, unconscious scanning goes on all the time. It seems more than ever that what we know as the visionary or poetic mode…

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“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration”

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