A Very Great Iliad... Concerns The Creation

Being Or Nothing, That Is The Question. Ascending, Descending, Coming, Going, A Man Does So Much That In The End He Disappears.

The Poet Is Never Inspired, Because He Is The Master Of That Which Appears To Others As Inspiration. He Does Not Wait For Inspiration To Fall Out Of The Heavens Like Roasted Ortolans. He Knows How To Hunt...he Is Never Inspired Because He Is Unceasingly Inspired, Because The Powers Of Poetry Are Always At His Disposition, Subjected To His Will, Submissive To His Own Activity.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.

It Doesn't Seem To Me That Anyone Has Discovered Much That's New Since The Iliad Or The Odyssey.

Fiction Has Consisted Either Of Placing Imaginary Characters In A True Story, Which Is The Iliad, Or Of Presenting The Story Of An Individual As Having A General Historical Value, Which Is The Odyssey.