…as profound as Kierkegaard, because he writes fiction. I mean, here you have this abstract man going on and on like Coleridge. It's nothing compared with the really profound fictional man who just has to... always to keep these tremendous ideas alive in…

…the imagination performs this curious work of bringing things into harmony with one another. The definition of imagination given by Coleridge very famous one, probably familiar with it, but I think it's worth reading again. He says that imagination, he…

…to another opposite phenomenon, the phenomenon of art during the 17th century. This art is distinguished by a kind of what Coleridge called nemaity, which means too muchness. We see saints in ecstasy, in sort of paroxysms of emotion, turning up their eyes,…