That girl had been neither priggish nor puritanical, only intelligent, full of ideals, and emotionally immature, dedicated to that vision of womankind which man himself has consciously created, but from which unconsciously he turns away, chilled and rebuked by its very perfection.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Shakespeare's line, "We are but such stuff as dreams are made of," is but a metaphysical theory emotionally put; Isaiah's rebuke to the corrupt rich is but a didactic saw, ecstatically delivered.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Poetry finds its best material in metaphysical and ethical truths emotionally presented.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell