The Power Of The Visible

Poetry, That Is To Say The Poetic, Is A Primal Necessity.

We Are What We Were At Birth, And Each Trait Has Remained In Conformity With Earth's And With Heaven's Logic: Be The Devil's Tool, Resort To Black Magic, None Can Diverge From The Ends Which Heaven Foreordained.

I See No Reason For Calling My Work Poetry Except That There Is No Other Category In Which To Put It.

We Prove, We Do Not Explain, Our Birth.

When One Cannot Appraise Out Of One's Own Experience, The Temptation To Blunder Is Minimized, But Even When One Can, Appraisal Seems Chiefly Useful As Appraisal Of The Appraiser.