To ourselves we are always being introduced. - Eli Siegel

Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.

Poetry, like life, states that the very self of a thing is its relations, its having-to-do-with other things. Whatever is in the world, whatever person, has meaning because it or he has to do with the whole universe: immeasurable and crowded reality. The technique of poetry aims for the intensification of a thing through showing the likeness of what is in that thing to something else--to everything else, as different.

Wrongfully to be contemptuous of other human beings is inviting mental unhealth for oneself.