Made of Different Wood

“A poet understands that the mast of a ship, a gallows and a cross are made of different wood. He understands the difference between a stone from the wall of a church and a stone from the wall of a prison … this poetical understanding of the world should be developed, strengthened and fortified, because only through it do we come into touch with the truly real world. And in the real world, behind phenomena which seem to us the same, there are often concealed noumena so different that only our blindness can account for our idea of the similarity of these phenomena.”

- P. D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, chapter 14.