Certain painters operate purely with the reason and certain works of music imitate the sound of moving locomotives. This is a modern preoccupation. Myt h ology evokes realities which logical thought will never be able to express, realities which bring to the spirit a nourishment which is singularly richer than the demonstrations of science. People in the infancy of their culture make use of the symbols as much as or even more than children themselves. T rue, there are still poets and artists, but, like the philosophers, they stand outside of society.
Poetry is relegated to the role of a means of diversion.
And at night they read the poets, in secret. A small collection of crudely rendered icons of various literary heads. Read List Simply, books I've read. Misc Data I used to update this stuff more often. None of it matters.