If We Are To Preserve Culture We

Culture Requires In The First Place A Certain Balance Of Material And Spiritual Values.

Culture Must Have Its Ultimate Aim In The Metaphysical Or It Will Cease To Be Culture.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.

A Crude Mind Could Easily Think: Something Is Valid, Therefore It Is True.

If We Are To Preserve Culture We Must Continue To Create It.