Here's a curious synthesis between your second and third sections: depiction of "what is inside [artists] but also the world in front of them" can almost definitely apply to Either/Or, though Kierkegaard was far more than a poet. That said, his depiction of the individual attempting to approach God through his own meager subjective perception straddles both sides of the adage you have in mind.
Here's a curious synthesis between your second and third sections: depiction of "what is inside [artists] but also the world in front of them" can almost definitely apply to Either/Or, though Kierkegaard was far more than a poet. That said, his depiction of the individual attempting to approach God through his own meager subjective perception straddles both sides of the adage you have in mind.