kiss again (an etheree)

[Jeffrey Gibson]

You have an idea because good poets described it to you using things you have experienced but you have never experienced it.

And you know this how?
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Anyway, I don't want to get too caught up in this but it is a good rule of thumb to keep in mind, always have the item you are comparing to (the object of) grounded in shared experience. You never.want to describe things in terms of something no one has experienced.

Perhaps you'll tell that to Rumi, not to mention all the OT prophets and those of their ilk and in their wake who claim otherwise.

In any case, whether experienced or not, it has been imagined and articulated, and given this, it seems perfectly legitimate to me to say that this X (this touch this kiss, etc.) is what (I've been told) the experience of having a god speak to you must be like.

Jeffrey