The Antagonism Between The Poet And The

The Poet's Other Readers Are The Ancient Poets, Who Look Upon The Freshly Written Pages From An Incorruptible Distance. Their Poetic Forms Are Permanent, And It Is Difficult To Create New Forms Which Can Approach Them.

At The Point When Continuity Was Interrupted By The First Nuclear Explosion, It Would Have Been Too Easy To Recover The Formal Sediment Which Linked Us With An Age Of Poetic Decorum, Of A Preoccupation With Poetic Sounds.

Poetry Is Also The Physical Self Of The Poet, And It Is Impossible To Separate The Poet From His Poetry.

Religious Poetry, Civic Poetry, Lyric Or Dramatic Poetry Are All Categories Of Man's Expression Which Are Valid Only If The Endorsement Of Formal Content Is Valid.

From The Night, His Solitude, The Poet Finds Day And Starts A Diary That Is Lethal To The Inert. The Dark Landscape Yields A Dialogue.