#Poetic Priesthood

The Poet Is the Priest of the Invisible – Wallace Stevens

In the modernist era, artists often sought new ways to connect with the mysterious and the ineffable. Stevens’s metaphor resonates with the Symbolist movement, as seen in Stéphane Mallarmé’s belief that poetry reveals 'the pure notion of things.' This underscores the poet’s ongoing quest to capture what cannot easily be seen or said. [...]