Restate My Assumptions

1. Poetry is audible; it is music.
2. Poetry is intellectual; it is enigmatical.
3. Poetry seeks an emotional or philosophical truth.

4. All poetry desires to approach perfection in all three aspects (previously mentioned), simultaneously.
5. Poetry exists only in the mind, and can never be replicated. Readers are co-creators with writers.

6. The one perfect poem does not exist.
7. Poetic perfection does exist, and has been experienced. Every true poem reaches perfection, in some mind at some moment. Greater poems achieve this with greater regularity, in greater diversities of minds.