“The limits of our language are not… those of our world. … All good art and literature begin in immanence. But they do not stop there. …It is the enterprise and privilege of the aesthetic to quicken into lit presence the continuum between temporality and eternity, bet-ween matter and spirit, between man and ‘the other.’ It is in this common and exact sense that poiesis opens on to, is underwritten by, the religious and the metaphysical.”

George Steiner