Excerpt from Texts and Pretexts<br/><br/>Would even Dante's abilities suffice to inform our vast and swiftly changing chaos, to build it up into a harmonious composition, to impose a style? One may venture to doubt it. There is too much raw material, of too many kinds; and some of the kinds (as, for example, the experience Of the urban industrial or clerical worker) seem almost too hopelessly mechanical ever to be given Style. And yet it is only by poets that the life Of any epoch can be synthesized. Encyclopaedias and guides to knowledge cannot do it, for the good rea son that they affect only the intellectual surface Of a man's life. The lower layers, the core of his being, they leave untouched.
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