“Hadn't––from books, from living—The profusion dawned on us, of “languages”
Any one of which, to who could read it,
Lit up the system it conceived?––bird-flight,
Hallucinogen, chorale and horoscope:
Each its own world, hypnotic, many-sided
Facet of the universal gem.
- James Merrill, The Book of Ephraim