For a propagandist to sit down to give it utterance would be as if a handy-man were to set out to build a cathedral.

The Revolution does not need to be argued; it justifies itself--all we need is to give it utterance--give it utterance once greatly.

Then the writer may proceed to give utterance to every good thing under the sun.

But our artists are making, and will continue to make, only second-class literature, for they are afraid of the Revolution, and it is all over our best of life; they are afraid of that life.

But to enter the arena of greatness they must give it a voice.
That is the vocation of the poet.
VIII Yes, and the poet will be unlike you, gentlemen of the fastidious phrase.