Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
From Allen Tate
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
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