You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the typing. Then it's retyped again. Then there's a third typing, which is the final one. Nothing should then remain that offends the eye.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.