“ It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds re… Peter Redgrove
“ We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration Peter Redgrove
“ Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we ma… Peter Redgrove
“ The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexp… Peter Redgrove
“ The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. Peter Redgrove
“ Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multipl… Peter Redgrove
“ His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground o… Peter Redgrove
