What poetry expresses is neither the mythic word-picture of gods and demons, nor the logical truth of abstrac determinations and relations. The world of poetry stands apart from both, as a world of illusion and fantasy - but it is just in this mode of illusion that the realm of pure feeling can find utterance, and can therewith attain it's full and concrete actualization. Word & mythic image, which once confronted the human mind as hard realistic powers, have now cast off all reality and effectuality; they have become a light, bright ether in which the spirit can move without let or hindrance. This liberation is achieved not because the mind throws aside the sensuous forms of word & image, but in that it uses them both as organs of it's own, and thereby recognizes them for what they really are: forms of it's own self-revelation."
E.Cassirer
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He died from a heart attack, thank you for your comment.
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