the theologian as lunatic, lover, poet . . .

"The lunatic, the lover and the poet
Are of imagination all compact . . .

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth
to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."

Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1