Tim Bray

"When I say above that technique is the means of conveying an exact
impression of exactly what one means, I do not by any means mean that poetry
is to be stripped of any of its powers of vague suggestion.  Our life is, in
so far as it is worth living, made up in great part of things indefinite,
impalpable; and it is precisely because the arts present us those things
that we -humanity- cannot get on without the arts.  The picture that
suggests indefinite poems, the line of verse that means a gallery of
paintings, the modulation that suggests a score of metaphors and is
contained in none; it is these things that touch us nearly that 'matter'."
Ezra Pound,  "I Gather The Limbs of Osiris" in "Ezra Pound: Selected Prose
1909-1965" page 33.

Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM