'The poet understands <br />that the mast of a ship, <br />the gallows, and <br />the cross are made <br />of different wood. <br /> <br />He understands <br />the difference <br />between the stone <br />from a church wall <br />and the stone <br />from a prison wall. <br /> <br />He hears <br />'the voices of stones, ' <br />understands the whisperings <br />of ancient walls, <br />of tumuli, <br />of mountains, rivers, <br />woods and plains. <br /> <br />He hears <br />'the voice of the silence, ' <br />understands the psychological difference <br />between silences, <br />knows that one silence <br />can differ from another, <br /> <br />And this poetical understanding <br />of the world should be developed, <br />strengthened and fortified, <br />because only by its aid do <br />we come in contact with <br />the true world of reality.' <br /> <br />Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, Tertium Organum Alfred A. Knopf, New York,1955, pp 144. (As translated from the Russian by Micholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon)<br /><br />Sidi J. Mahtrow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-poet-52/
