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There Has Been In Our Time A Lack Of Reliance On Language And A Lack Of Experimentation Which Are Frightening To Anyone Who Sees Them As Symptoms. We Know The Phenomenon Of Stage-fright: It Holds The Player Shivering, Incapable Of Speech Or Action. Perhaps There Is An Audience-fright Which The Play Can Feel, Which Leaves Him With These Incapacities.

Poetry Is, Above All, An Approach To The Truth Of Feeling. A Fine Poem Will Seize Your Imagination Intellectually - That Is, When You Reach It, You Will Reach It Intellectually Too - But The Way Is Through Emotion, Through What We Call Feeling.

If There Were No Poetry On Any Day In The World, Poetry Would Be Invented That Day. For There Would Be An Intolerable Hunger.

The Universe Of Poetry Is The Universe Of Emotional Truth. Our Material Is In The Way We Feel And The Way We Remember.

The World Is Made Up Of Stories, Not Atoms.