A person however learned and good who lacks these two qualities can never arrive at a satisfactory result, especially on the spiritual path. No spiritual person, however great, however pious and spirituality advanced, has ever been able to give a scripture to the world unless he was blessed with the gift of poetry. But it must be understood that although facts about the name and forms of this world may be scientifically explained in plain words, when one wishes to interpret the sensation one gets when looking at life it can not be explained except in the way that the prophets did in poetry. No one has ever explained, nor can anyone ever explain, the truth in words. The message that the prophets have given to the world at different times is an interpretation in their own words of the idea of life that they have received.
Inspiration begins in poetry and culminates in prophecy.
One can picture the poet as a soul that has so to speak risen from its grave and is beginning to make graceful movements. When the same soul begins to move and to dance in all directions and to touch heaven and earth in its dance, expressing all the beauty it sees, that is prophecy . The poet when he is developed reads the mind of the universe, although it very often happens that the poet himself does not know the real meaning of what he has said. Very often one finds that a poet has said something, and after many years there comes a moment when he realizes the true meaning what he said . This shows that behind all these different activities the divine spirit is hidden, and the divine spirit often manifests through an individual without his realizing that it is divine.