But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

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.

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.