Concepts being inadequate, runs this opinion, the poet is never successful. The poet succeeds indeed. The opinion that he does not mistakes the material for the formal, the concepts which it uses for the expression itself of the beautiful. Language is used, as my friend might say, as a Metaphor for beauty. For poetry is a paradox.
Language is inadequate.
Da robur, fer auxilium. Uni trinoque Domino Sit sempiterna gloria, Qui vitam sine termino Nobis donet in patria. With a beautiful natural thing, such as a mountain view, I am led by what I see to recognise this superabundance, so that at the same time as I view it I contemplate that abundance. And this leads to a certain benevolent love and that in turn to corresponding emotion. Soon, then, I am engaged sense, emotion, will, and intellect with that one beautiful thing.