The Marriage of Thought and Feeling

We think in words. But I also believe we think in images as a young child may before owning a grasp of language. Perhaps this is why our dreams are so vivid, and perhaps why they are more fantastical and charged with emotion than our waking moments – where experience is not framed by reason.

Thus art must reach beyond the mere empirical, pointing to what may not yet be seen but only imagined or felt, establishing a fuller, more accurate account of our reality.

Poetic writing, whether in verse or prose, is a bridge that in the process of marrying what we can reason in our minds and feel in our hearts, gives “name” or consciousness to our experience.