The critical or philosophical essay, the novel and short story when Ecstatical, are therefore poetry.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
It is not necessary that a literary production should be a protracted piece of Ecstatical writing.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
We can by no means know how high these sensations of dying may reach, as we have accounts of them from none but those in whom the process has been interrupted; nor can we ascertain whether it is not these Ecstatical transports which exhaust life more than the convulsions of pain, and which loosen the tie of this terrestrial state in some unknown heaven.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter