With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Willigis Jäger was a German Benedictine monk, mystic, and Zen master, who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition until 2009, and then continued his own sangha independently.
