The meaning of a poem comes not from the words, but from the transmutation that occurs in the heart of the poet at the time the poem is written. In all poetry that is not simply decorative, there is an elemental activity of consciousness, a sustained golden moment that triumphs over raw experience. The meaning of a poem is that activity of mind, triumphant over the despair that the words of the poem may convey.
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