( I am a poet ashamed-WCW) The poet was heard to say of his Vow When attempting to describe the purpose A poem

can serve if, when, why, and How It just had some time with which to Compose And with only one formulaRhythm Bring into its own movement, Inertia While Silence supplies the world a Mirror Not to Imitate: Not to Imitate But by an Alternative Course and means Between all the people talking at Once it subsists of something and something else I hear in my Heart what my Eyes witness Against any other a precedent Art does not imitate life but life Art