This is rich! Those aphorisms are treasures--like gems in a jewelry box, and I must revisit them daily, take them to heart, internalize them.

I love your insight:

poetry might be unabashedly addressed to the Divine as well as sensual, at once.

You remind me of an art exhibit I saw in college many years ago, Reuben Nakian's line drawings of Leda and the Swan - (rape!) - a curator had posted the typed placard explaining that the artist saw "the sacred in the profane" - and while I forget 90% of what I see, hear, and read, that one stayed with me. Online, I cannot find a good copy of it. For $545, you can buy a print... such a simple line drawing, yet it conveys so much.

If you care to take a closer look, you can zoom in on it here: https://www.quintessentialthings.com/product/reuben-original-etching/

Ok, that's enough of the sensual and the divine for one Monday morning. :)

Thank you for the daily dose of wisdom - today in particular I'm trying to process this one:

How can the laws of nature be ruptured for you so that miracles result, when you, for your part, have yet to rupture your bad habits.