A Poet Clings To His Own Tradition

We Wrote Verses That Condemned Us, With No Hope Of Pardon, To The Most Bitter Solitude.

Thus, The Poet's Word Is Beginning To Strike Forcefully Upon The Hearts Of All Men, While Absolute Men Of Letters Think That They Alone Live In The Real World.

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

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

Poetry Is The Revelation Of A Feeling That The Poet Believes To Be Interior And Personal But Which The Reader Recognizes As His Own.