I take a piece of life, coarse and poor, and create from it a delightful legend--because I am a poet. Whether it linger in the darkness; whether it be dim, commonplace, or raging with a furious fire--life is before you; I, a poet, will erect the legend I have created about the enchanting and the beautiful. Chance caught in the entangling net of circumstance brings about every beginning. Yet it is better to begin with what is splendid in earthly experience, or at any rate with what is beautiful and pleasing. Splendid are the body, the youth, and the gaiety in man; splendid are the water, the light, and the summer in nature.…
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