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Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Poet

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself) by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power in which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law and his words are universally intelligible

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The [person] knows he speaks adequately when he speaks wildly, or with the 'flower of the mind' not with the intellect...... released from all service and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life; or as the ancient were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone, but with the intellect inebriated by nectar