Two Eyed Soap
While creating poetry, it is important to keep the concept grounded in something that is real. Whether it is in the physical or some other tangential plane is secondary for the position must be linked to something known or understood so there may be some relativity between the subject and the audience; so as this, such is that.
The great art and aim of poetry is to wed REASON, IMAGINATION AND FEELING so that humans can see more than the rind and husk of Nature. So that they may perceive the connections and homogeneities of natural objects, their relations to each other and to us [and] find yet deeper insights1. These three human attributes comprise what is generally referred to as our sixth-sense and one manifestation of its expression is poetry.
When formulating an idea, the generator must first define the basis on which the concept will rest. The cornerstones and their correlations must be laid out. Other related areas of knowledge should be kept in mind. Only then can the viewpoint be built utilizing style, perspective and the innate forces that the subject and its related areas supply. When forming these thoughts into a cohesive position, the fabricator must take into account the juxtaposition of how this proposed structure of knowledge intersects with reality and other outlooks of how this reality operates. This will lend credence and serve as a balance and check for the authenticity, worth and reliability that the insight provides to the real world.
There must be an understanding of how this structure fits into the landscape of related knowledge which helps to define the style and dictate its course. Much like the physical necessities for the proper functioning of an organ and the constraints placed upon it by the body as a whole largely dictate the form and location the organ will take within the body. It's as if life itself, which is the quest for understanding, manifests a structure of enlightenment in response to some environmental situation and expresses it as an organ. The poet must take similar care in constructing an enlightened perspective.
Some minor or unformed insights can lead to a progeny of more fully developed intuitions in this or other related areas of knowledge. Some major insights can be creative dead-ends in that there are no inspiring tendencies in either the subject, the concept, and/or relations to other areas of knowledge. Some insights seem inspired out of
clairvoyance and lack an under-pinning of reason but they must still adhere to a conviction of imagination and feeling that connects it to a reality2 - for the concept to affect this reality. If it is of sufficient authenticity, worth or reliability it will give birth to a whole family of concepts in the landscape of knowledge and/or affectations in this reality3.
We must strive to glide on the crest of this evolving vista of wisdom. Some truths don't last forever. They must be gleaned while they can be, for while it is true that I may live today, nothing is promised of tomorrow. Just because no lie can live forever doesn't mean all truths do.
"Yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth, that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature… Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
"What a man sees in Nature will therefore depend upon what he has to see with. Deprived of four senses, a man would perceive only sounds; deprived of but three senses, he would perceive only sounds and sights. If he have all his physical senses, and nothing more, he will see the rind and husk of Nature. If he bring reason along, he will perceive the connections and homogeneities of natural objects, their relations to each other and to us. If he add imagination, he will find yet deeper insight; if feeling, deeper yet."
"We see only shadows and know only in part, and...all things change; but the mind, the unconquerable mind, compasses all truth, embraces the universe as it is, converts the shadows to realities and makes tumultuous changes seem but moments in an eternal silence, or short lines in the infinite theme of perfection, and the evil but "a halt on the way to good." Though with my hand I grasp only a small part of the universe, with my spirit I see the whole, and in my thought I can compass the beneficent laws by which it is governed."