Only when the sacredness and transcendence
Of the humane imagination
Is avowed
Will that metaphorical masterpiece,
That gnostic-prophetic synthesis —
"Jesus Christ" —
Regain its role in the Western mind.
Jerusalem
21 September 1995
Only when the sacredness and transcendence
Of the humane imagination
Is avowed
Will that metaphorical masterpiece,
That gnostic-prophetic synthesis —
"Jesus Christ" —
Regain its role in the Western mind.
Jerusalem
21 September 1995
The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me:Israel’s America’s sacred