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the stifling heat of September
Somehow
it seems to destroy us
It is only in isolate flecks that
something
is given off
No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
or better : prose has to do with the fact of an
emotion ; poetry has to do with the dynamisation
of emotion into a separate form. This is the force of
imagination.
prose : statement of facts concerning emotions, intellectua states, data of all sorts — technical expo- sitions, jargon, of all sorts — fictional and other —
poetry : new form dealt with as a reality in itself.
The form of prose is the accuracy of its subject matter-how best to expose the multiform phases of its material
the form of poetry is related to the movements of the imagination revealed in words — or whatever it may be —
the cleavage is complete
