Grammatical construction can make of an apparent riddle or paradox a font of expanding intuition: “Death is all things we see awake; all we see asleep is sleep.” Ring-structures spiral into esoteric depths which we might, mistakenly, sense as psychoanalytic: “Living, he touches the dead in his sleep; waking, he touches the sleeper” (Heraclitus is our great thinker on sleep).
Séamus Sweeney 
Reblogged this on amedicaleducation and commented:
I greatly enjoy Steiner. Although I also found this scathing review valid: http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001765.php .
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