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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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dignity which always attach to dumb, 1 tl objects— they expect him to indicate the path between r alitv and their souls. Lion and women perceive tin beauty well enough—probably as well as h e . " "They can never be assisted by poets to perceive—some may, but they never c a n . " "All beauty conies from beautiful blood and a beautiful b r a i n . " u T h e known universe has one complete lover, and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens, and which possible contingency of fortune or misfortune, and persuades daily and hourly his delin cious pay. " H i s love above all love has leisure and expanse—he leaves room ahead of himself. He i no irresolute or suspicious lover—he is sure—ha scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing. Nothing can jar him—suffering and darkness cannot—death and fear cannot. To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth —he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea, than he is of the fruition of his love, and of all perfection and b e a u t y . " " P a s t and present and future are not disjoined but joined. The greatest poet forms the consistence of what is to be, from what has been and i s . " " T h e greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals—he knows the s o u l . " " H e swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome. I will not have in my writings anv eloiranee, •r effect, or orj^inalit v, to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. 1 will have nothing in the way, not the richest c u r t a i n s / ' " T h e messages of great poems to each man and 133
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