Of Visions and Reality

We, poets, live with one foot in Saguna Brahman - the visible world - and the other foot in Nirguna Brahman - the inmanifest, the invisible -. A lot of the things we see might be perceived by a Beholder as Visions, Dreams, Fantasies... Yet we can see so clearly our world around and lucidly dissect the reality, without anesthesia. The duality between that blinding vision, the perfect archetypes we have seen and the grinding reality, the injustice, unfairness, abuse, violence, fear and hatred, is something we all poets (and artists) have to deal with and that has made many poets` lifes miserable ... and many other have written their masterpieces out of it. DANTE ALIGHIERI, WILLIAM BLAKE, JOHN MILTON, HÖLDERLIN, CLEMO, they all - and we all - have been through that. - And the Vision is still there -