To get an idea of what the “poet,” Parmenides, was “pointing at”… here’s a quote from Goethe’s “Faust”:

'Reflect not! Grant freely, as thou feel'st!'

Yes, that's the right way,
When we cannot say
How we think. True thought
Comes as a gift, unsought.

from here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25732/25732-h/25732-h.htm
another link: http://www.faust.com/legend/alchemy/

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Kind of reminds one of "the still point of the turning world" from T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets":

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;                                 

Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where
And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time. (II)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Four_Quartets

You can also see where "true poets"/"dancers" get their source, i.e., Rumi...

http://www.katherineneville.com/my-adventures/the-sufis-of-turkey/
http://wahiduddin.net/sufi/turning.htm

You can also look to Krishnamurti…

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-believe, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change. To bring about a change within oneself and therefore within society, one needs this radical energy, for the individual is not different from society - the society is the individual and the individual is the society. And to bring about a necessary radical, essential change in the structure of society - which is corrupt, which is immoral - there must be change in the human heart and mind. To bring about that change you need great energy and that energy is denied or perverted, or twisted, when you act according to a concept; which is what we do in our daily life. The concept is based on past history, or on some conclusion, so it is not action at all, it is an approximation to a formula. So one asks if there is an action which is not based on an idea, on a conclusion formed by dead things which have been.

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Observation without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.