Definition of poetry

Why do we say “in-spired”? Why not “respired”, “aspired”, “conspired”, “perspired”? Why this preposition “in”? The late Stanko Šimi devoted a whole literary evening to this preposition “in”, confusing the spies of “non-scientific” and “reactionary” world views since at the time it was not allowed to say that inspiration is sublime. The preposition “in” has come from such a realization.
Inspiration has initially been understood to come from beyond thought and hearing. I like the latter-hearing. We hear not by the sense of hearing that can detect but a narrow range of frequencies while lower or higher ones go unnoticed but by an inner hearing, the hearing of the heart, an inner alertness, soul, intuition, and premonition. That hearing is what it is all about. The purer this hearing is, the freer it is from the dominance of the ear which is tuned to outside stimuli. This inner hearing can hear more and better and can know without a doubt. The Vedas, the oldest Indo-European cultural monument, have come into existence in this way–through concentrated, purified hearing. They were passed on orally for at least two millennia before they were written down for the first time.
Great rishis define a poet as a mantra-drishti. What does this mean? A mantra-drishti is a seer of mantras. And what is a mantra? It is a perfect sound that is the key to a phenomenon or a being. A mantra is harmonious sound and vibration, and to see a mantra means to be a poet who can see the invisible
We are immersed in an unfathomable mystery, an enormous cryptogram, and we are singing it.