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True poetry was never speech, but always song.
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
Poetry, we might say, is concerned with the truth of what is, not with what is truth.
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem!
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
The words in a poem, (or more exactly, syllables) are vocal signs that convey an intangible essence (the pattern of feeling) that vanishes the moment we approach it with an analytical intelligence.
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
A poem is not a statement, but a manifestation, a manifestation of being
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)
A poem therefore is to be defined as a structure of words whose sound constitutes a rhythmical unity, complete in itself, irrefragable, unanalyzable, completing its symbolic references within the ambit of its sound effects.
What is a Poem - Endword - Selected Poems (1926)