Poet (n.) are the first to divine the dark currents of the collective unconscious and, like true prophets, to voice aloud what others only dream — what they bring up later appears as anarchism and regicide in the masses.
A Poet (n.) has the most immediate effect when he expresses the most superficial levels of the unconscious in a suitable form.
A Poet (n.) is the one who restores a worn-out idea to its archetypal splendour — as Hölderlin turned "liberty" back into a goddess.
A Poet (n.) is often the worst witness to his own work: Spitteler said his Olympian Spring meant nothing, and he could just as well have sung 'May is come, tra-la-la.'
A Poet (n.) who is not copying a textbook usually understands psychosis better than the psychiatrist, Jung admitted, though the artist's world is one of solved problems and the madman's, like reality, one of unsolved ones.