Play Is Older Than Culture, For Culture,

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

A New Culture Can Only Grow Up In The Soil Of A Purged Humanity.

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

In Order To Begin An Analysis, There Must Already Be A Synthesis Present In The Mind.

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.