It awakens and enlarges the mind itself by rendering it the receptacle of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
If it is the function of poetry to expand the imagination and make the mind aware of a thousand unapprehended combinations of thought, how did it happen that Arnold, a genuine poet, missed Shelley utterly?
Poetry serves morality not by what it explicitly teaches, but by its power to awaken and enlarge the mind, to render it "the receptacle of a thousand unapprehendedcombinations of thought.
Whether we refer that abnormality to atavism, or to some hitherto unapprehendeddeviation from the rule in their sexual conformation, there is no proof that they are the subjects of disease.
