Leaning Toward the Poet Quotes

“Looking back on his long life as a psychologist, Jung confessed that the death of the poet had to be the sacrifice required to create his psychology.”
― Robert Romanyshyn, Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life

“My claim is that a poetic sensibility inclines us to the language of soul and awakens us to the mystery, ambiguity, subtlety, and the strange and awesome elusive epiphanies of the multi-leveled layers of psychological life as they display themselves in the world.”
― Robert Romanyshyn, Leaning Toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life