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Show "Poets Are Born, Not Made" BY OR VILLIAM E. DARVCTJ All mr-n arc horn .r.t. The laifmacel of childhood is the language of i.oc'V- . F? 'ii'.. BBft . 1 '"j; om ,v Bfjk:-. "3 w' Ol VIJ an J ' ' 1 K, 5 TT?srfj iii i'.,.;. 1 1 -.old i. Kfe . JtW -,r'n v '"" " ' ' V - . , . He rhymed her cacl flay a letter. But that dldn t servo to get her lie vnli.-d on- h, nii-rrhd an-. Cur man from spl i c. And wrote and told him ihe'd done it and not ic forget to write. ' l es 'here are rertait .art of courting ar.n of most other smrlous matters whh h muPt r,. done in prose B;:t arc a'- temp, in- to flo emit rrourli r.f thr. CL. . s:rtjrilr. work of fp It, n,at fcaj A. V t Idgc-builder Is a poet ,. flln'M ft highwa through high air. A rarmer l a poet. He lookj at a tamp of firid mud. and his poetic eye paints It with thr- promise of a glorious stalker uin with eat fully ripened Th. sclkatlft Is s i'"H. ani he knows it Lraten te Prof Tynoatb as bard-headed an rnvestigator a bngiand produced in the nineteen) ii century : j "The s icntist .anno, consider, much loss answer, the (question. What is I Light? without transporting hiinself to a world whlcti und.rlir-s th.. :.ri.vll,r ,,r,. ami out of whi-di. In aoor.ivtan.-. with ririd law. ai optical phenomms -nin Po nalize Hm siibrsensiblc world, ir I ma.' isty that term, the mind mu.-i possess pos-sess a orrtalu pictorial power. It hai lo visualize the invisible. . . . This conception of physical theory Implies. you pen rUc. the exercise of ttv Imagination. Imagina-tion. lo not Ic afraid of iho word I io not mean a riotous po'wer which plays capriciously with facis. but . II -t i cl plinod power whone sole function to 'r-rm cnnrepHonii which the intellect Im-peratuelj Im-peratuelj demands " I like tbat Dhraes "He mut vlsuallxs the Invisible." That Is what the poet does. And. by the way. Ii reminds ine. of a word which I have read In tin-Bible: tin-Bible: 'if,-1 endured as sccinp Him who i-inviplble." |