The Future Poetry
Speech, the expressive Word, has such a summit or absolute, a perfection which is the touch of the infinite upon its finite possibilities and the seal upon it of its Creator. This absolute of the expressive Word can be given the name which was found for it by the inspired singers of the Veda, the Mantra. Poetry especially claimed for its perfected expression in the hymns of the Veda this name. ... the Mantra is the word that carries the godhead in it or the power of the godhead, can bring it into the consiousness and fix there it and its workings, awaken there the thrill of the infinite, the force of something absolute, perpetuate the miracle of the supreme utterance ... -p279
       And the listener seems to be that other vaster and yet identical eternal spirit whom the Upanishad speaks of as the ear of the ear ... -p21