Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. - William Carlos Williams

The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

perhaps it is all art
and Barnum our one genius (in the arts)
on the moral plane