There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.
Things explain each other, not themselves.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.