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 composition pass through matter like secret mathematical lightning flashes. We must be exact, mathematical and geometrical, in order to be equal to nature. Number and fantasy, law and abundance are the feverish forces of nature; not sitting down beneath a green tree, but creating crystals and ideas denotes becoming as nature; creating laws and forms: penetrating matter with glowing flashes of divine computation.

Ah, how scantily eccentric, how scantily daring and precise is poetry!