When You Defile The Pleasant

We Recognise In The Finished Art, Which Is The Result Of These Conditions, The Best Words In The Best Order - Poetry; And To Put This Essential Poetry Into Different Classes Is Impossible.

Poetry Is The Communication Through Words Of Certain Experiences That Can Be Communicated In No Other Way.

Great Men Are Rare, Poets Are Rarer, But The Great Man Who Is A Poet, Transfiguring His Greatness, Is The Rarest Of All Events.

Grant Us The Wil1 To Fashion As We Feel, Grant Us The Strength To Labor As We Know, Grant Us The Purpose, Ribbed And Edged With Steel, To Strike The Blow.

To Take An Analogy: If We Say That A Democratic Government Is The Best Kind Of Government, We Mean That It Most Completely Fulfills The Highest Function Of A Government - The Realisation Of The Will Of The People.