Poetic Thought - J.H. Prynne
What thereby vibrates on the page and in
the mind of the reader, in knowledge and memory
and moral understanding, thus does not belong to the poet,
not any more; it does not belong in the domain of the language
system, not any more; it does not reside in the fabric
of dispute about values or competing models of state control,
or visions of a future life. Even the conceptions
of a public domain
or an interpretative community
cannot claim to be its necessary housing, any more
than a conjured posterity and its compact storage
in face of the unknown.
These are the outer shells,
of a dialectic energy working through the methods
of poetic composition which cannot be defined
or contained by its shells but must break them
to become altogether new: new poetic thought.