Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.