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Play: It Is An An Activity Which Proceeds Within Certain Limits Of Time And Space, In A Visible Order, According To Rules Freely Accepted, And Outside The Sphere Of Necessity Or Material Utility. The Play-mood Is One Of Rapture And Enthusiasm, And Is Sacred Or Festive In Accordance With The Occasion. A Feeling Of Exaltation And Tension Accompanies The Action.

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.

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

The Eternal Gulf Between Being And Idea Can Only Be Bridged By The Rainbow Of Imagination.

From Whichever Angle One Looks At It, The Application Of Racial Theories Remains A Striking Proof Of The Lowered Demands Of Public Opinion Upon The Purity Of Critical Judgment.