"The
successful poet, the poet who really carries his message, is the one to whom
the words come that have this particular power... What he does for you, what he
does for us all is always to produce a metaphor in which we suddenly see two
separate parts of the world, and we say, 'My God, why did I not think that they
belonged together?' ... It is the essence of poetry, as of painting, as of all
art, to communicate that, to leap over the gulf between us -- to make the
metaphor suddenly speak to us, not so that we understand it, but so that we
recreate it. Style is the means by which we recreate the content for
ourselves." --Jacob Bronowski
