"The poetic creation is nearly like the amazement state of a child who, in the first time, sees the strange phenomena of nature and finds out the human mysteries and complications... The poet is a selected person , who is “granted a favour”in the spirit of Jesus Christ, or meets a “good fortune” in Buddhism."
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