Sentence:  Something <WSD>indirect</WSD> , mixed , reconciling , tensional might well be the stratagem , the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like '' expressions `` of these emotions , without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination