Poetry Is The Revelation Of

The Antagonism Between The Poet And The Politician Has Generally Been Evident In All Cultures.

At The Point When Continuity Was Interrupted By The First Nuclear Explosion, It Would Have Been Too Easy To Recover The Formal Sediment Which Linked Us With An Age Of Poetic Decorum, Of A Preoccupation With Poetic Sounds.

As The Poet Has Expected, The Alarms Now Are Sounded, For - And It Must Be Said Again - The Birth Of A Poet Is Always A Threat To The Existing Cultural Order, Because He Attempts To Break Through The Circle Of Literary Castes To Reach The Center.

The Writer Of Stories Or Of Novels Settles On Men And Imitates Them; He Exhausts The Possibilities Of His Characters.

Europeans Know The Importance Of The Resistance; It Has Been The Shining Example Of The Modern Conscience.