The world is a force not a presence. - Wallace Stevens

Behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.

The paramount relation between poetry and painting today, between modern man and modern art, is simply this: that in an age in which disbelief is so profoundly prevalent or, if not disbelief, indifference to questions of belief, poetry and painting, and the arts in general, are, in their measure, a compensation for what has been lost. Men feel that the imagination is the next greatest power to faith: the reigning prince.