A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them.
Related Keywords: Eternity May Talking Become Cannot Things Poem
Related Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke Samuel Beckett J. R. R. Tolkien Alexander Pope George Eliot Mary Wollstonecraft Baruch Spinoza
