ABSTRACT
Poetry is the great art of the building of transcendental health. The poet thus is the transcendental doctor. The feeling for poetry has much in common with the feeling for mysticism. It is the feeling for the particular, the personal, the unknown, the arcane, the revelatory, and the perforce adventitious. It portrays the unportrayable. It sees the invisible, senses the impalpable. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. The commerce between Man and his Maker cannot be carried on but by a process where much is represented in little, and the Infinite Being accommodates himself to a finite capacity. Poetry is indeed something divine. Thus the aim of art is almost divine: to bring back to life, if it is making history; to create, if it is making poetry.
