Excerpt from The Candle and the Flame: Poems

Spiders, the mind is diverted from the poem to the form, and the artistic method defeats the artistic aim. In this book I have placed lines that rhyme under each other, wherever this was possible with out injuring the architectonic structure. I am per fectly willing to sacrifice logic to effectiveness in art. Poetry has its architecture as well as its music. The free stanza which I consistently em ploy permits Of the freedom of Whitman without sacrificing the tonal advantage of Poe. My artistic aim, declared years ago in the preface to Nineveh, has been and still is, to extend the borderland of poetry into the realm of music on the one side, into that of the intellect on the other.

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