The Figure of Youth as a Virile Poet

Notes:
"I feel that the universe of being is too vast to be comprehended even by the greatest sons of Adam." -Henry Bradley
Your poetry, words tending towards miscomprehension, is the groundwork of your philosophy and a portal into the intimate imaginative inner-working world.

Official view of being = philosophic truth? No. Why? "In philosophy we attempt to approach truth through the reason. Obviously this is a statement of convenience."
Why not? "If we say that in poetry we attempt to approach the truth through imagination, this, too, is a statement of convenience."
So what then? Poetic truth equates to philosophic truth.

Solid thoughts with underwhelming elaboration and lackluster manifestation are the onset of anxiety and therefore give little contribution to the art in the land of lore.
"If an imaginative idea does not satisfy the imagination, our expectation of it is not fulfilled."
Either compete or concede.
"This is an illustration. It seems to elementary, from this point of view, that the poet, in order to fulfill himself, must accomplish a poetry that satisfies both reason and the imagination."

Strides must be taken during the journey, from womb to tomb or from child to adult or from naivety to maturity or whatever you want to call it.
"...poetry partakes of what may be called the tendency to become literature. Life itself partakes of this tendency, which is a phase of the growth of sophistication."
But those strides must sometimes be sidesteps so there's a problem to solve, because how do you know you're sophisticated unless you were first young, before you got blemishes.

I don't get what he's saying there, but there's something here: "if the end of the philosopher is despair, the end of the poet is fulfillment"
Anyone, enlighten me.

Where does your voice come from, your arrogance and pride and confidence and...
"without indirect egotism there can be no poetry. There can be poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found and why, in short, there is none."
These "bad" qualities are those that push you to something that you're not as a person, which appears as new life on the page. Once you break out of your head as a writer then you're writing for others satisfaction, too.
Thus, as we believe that society's savior will be reborn and return to the people..."the poet who writes the heroic poem that will satisfy all there is of us an all of us in time to come, will accomplish it by the power of his reason, the force of his imagination and, in addition, the effortless and inescapable process of his own individuality."

An analogous fun fact: "If a man's nerves shrink from loud sounds, then they are quite likely to shrink from strong colors"

Metamorphosis from the get go is utilizing any sort of literary trope or method. I think of those storytellers whose stories in reality are unrealistic, they're a lie, but what would be the quality of their stories be like if they didn't accept this standpoint.
"To describe it by exaggerating it, he shares the transformation, not to say apotheosis, accomplished by the poem."
Where's the story's fun when there's no hyperbole, and when that hyperbole is massively accepted and an accumulation of the masses opinion stacks up as a movement then,
"if we say that the idea of God is merely a poetic idea, even if the supreme poetic idea"
It's an imaginative revolution which installed the gods, whose back-stories are every bit as true as
any other study or history.
"It is as if we said that end of logic, mathematics, physics, reason and imagination is all one."
That's the cataclysmic ending of it all when there's an elimination of all inquiry because all our mysteries have been solved, but they won't anytime soon...or ever...because we'll always be thinkers.
"[The poet] must create his unreal out of what is real." See 681, too.
And the poet isn't restricted to poetry, cookie-cutter definitions of poetry with rhythm and rhyme with this and that nuance, because prose is poetry.
"Poetry is the voice of religion, prophecy, mythology, history, national life and inexplicably, for him, of literature."
Writing itself is a poetic act, and the manifestation of the imagination is abstract and therefore poetry because, as Mr. Stevens says, there's no universally accepted definition of poetry.

Our imagination accumulates and manifests outside the mind.
"few people realize that they are looking at the world of their own thoughts and the world of their own feelings."
Imagination becomes a shared reality in and of the essence of things, from inventions to regrown trees.
How is it shared? Well, as Stevens says, quoting, "'I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me'"
Then he concludes The Figure of Youth as a Virile Poet with,
"I am the truth but the truth of that imagination of life in which with unfamiliar motion and manner you guide me in those exchanges of speech in which your words are mine, mine yours."