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 the stifling heat of September Somehow it seems to destroy us It is only in isolate flecks that something is given off No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car or better : prose has to do with the fact of an emotion ; poetry has to do with the dynamisation of emotion into a separate form. This is the force of imagination.

prose : statement of facts concerning emotions, intellectua states, data of all sorts — technical expo- sitions, jargon, of all sorts — fictional and other —

poetry : new form dealt with as a reality in itself.

The form of prose is the accuracy of its subject matter-how best to expose the multiform phases of its material

the form of poetry is related to the movements of the imagination revealed in words — or whatever it may be —

the cleavage is complete