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Poetic thinking, which can include metaphoric thinking, seeks intensities by becoming intense.
This thinking summons intensities and deities to ride on for its expression, through which it tries to justly address other intensities.
The poetic is necessary, for nature (and culture) loves to hide.[1] Our prismatic god can appear supreme. The poetic trains attentiveness, not through rote exercise, but already in the heat of battle; already, practice is the real thing. The poetic is ethical.
Poetic thinking attends to calcifications, and gazes beyond.
[1] Heraclitus, fr. 39, in A Presocratics Reader, p. 34.