Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Death's long anabasis.
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.