"was, or should be, a key to the treasures of mystical experience, a means of expressing through sub-creation man's unity with the primary Creation of which he is part. It could also, in its highest form, be an expression of the homesickness of the soul in spiritual exile, a longing for that eternal realm for which the soul begins to ache."
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Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, 2011, Chapter 13 (explaining Solzhenitsyn's viewpoint)
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