the poet <br /> <br /> <br />-the ancient and noble craft <br />to pen immense things and great events <br />in rigorous and disciplined effort <br />rightly to be honored, esteemed in many ways <br /> <br />-the combination of talent and hard-work <br />with imaginative and expressive words <br />the language neither of cosmopolitan nor of the folk <br />to surpass what's in the book; to uphold the ages, <br /> <br />-the experience and the way of life <br />to inspire the losing; to rouse the sleeping <br />in his method be the moral conscience of his age: <br />the artist; the seer; the other angel's wing <br /> <br />-the creed and the philosophy <br />of knowledge and wisdom, of faith and reason <br />from chaos to edifying order, tragic to sublime reality <br />in purposeful patterned luck in time and in season <br /> <br /> <br />note: <br />The 'the poet' is one of the characters of the author's
