The poet places himself where the future becomes present.*
Lewis Hyde

Who can remind me that the journey is possible, and offers support when I need it? Who are my teachers, my mentors, my sponsors, my awakeners?**
Robert Dilts

Poets, guides, teachers, mentors, sponsors, awakeners –
They come from our future;
They enable us to see and know what we presently
do not:
Those phenomena with which
we have no affinity and in which
we are not in some sense ready to see
are often not seen at all.^

When our understanding is opened, then
the future becomes possible in the present.

*Lewis Hyde’s The Gift;
**Stephen Gilligan and Robert Dilts’ The Hero’s Journey;
^Thomas Kuhn: Scott McCloud’s Making Comics.