For inasmuch as verse is for the ear, not for the eye, we demand a good hearing first.

Let no one undervalue it.

The heart of poetry is indeed truth, but its garments are music, and the garments come first in the process of revelation.

The music of a poem is its meaning in sound as distinguished from word--its meaning in solution, as it were, uncrystallized by articulation.

The music goes before the fuller revelation, preparing its way.