"The secret of artistic creation and of the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of of participation mystique--to that level of experience at which the weal or woe of the single human being does not count but only human existence. This is why every great work of art is objective and impersonal, but none the less prodoundly moves us each and all. And this is also why the personal life of the poet cannot be held essential to his art--but at most a help or a hindrance to his creative task. He may go the way of a Philistine, a good citizen, a neurotic, a fool or a criminal. His personal career may be inevitable and interesting, but it does not explain the poet."
Carl Jung
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