No Other Discipline Has Its

The Repudiation Of The Primacy Of Understanding Means The Repudiation Of The Norms Of Judgment As Well, And Hence The Abandonment Of All Ethical Standards.

The Title Of Hero Is Bestowed By The Survivors Upon The Fallen, Who Themselves Know Nothing Of Heroism.

In Order To Begin An Analysis, There Must Already Be A Synthesis Present In The Mind.

An Aristocratic Culture Does Not Advertise Its Emotions. In Its Forms Of Expression It Is Sober And Reserved. Its General Attitude Is Stoic.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.