out of the nutshell

How much exact information can one load into a painting before suggestion takes over from fact? Total reality is unrepresentable, because it is infinite. One can make approximations in expression which produce this or that illusion, but below a certain scale the approximations turn into shorthand; microscopic reality cannot be rendered with a pasty, sloppy, granular substance like powdered minerals mixed in oil or words from the babelhouse of thinking. the poet is but a channel for thoughts unknown before expression and forgotten thereafter....poetry is the leavings on the beaches of infinity from which we extrapolate reality from dreams of it, which exist only in evanescent expressions from the depths of without....