24 Outlook to Nature 



therefore poetry must die away. Nothing 

 could be farther from the truth. 



It is true that industrialism is developing at 

 great pace ; this, in fact, is the glory of our 

 time, for civilization has entered on a new 

 epoch. Men's minds are concerned with things 

 that never concerned them before ; yet, the 

 resources of the old earth have merely been 

 touched here and there, and the wealth of 

 mankind will increase. But all this does not 

 mean that sentiment is to be crushed or that 

 the horizon of imagination is to be contracted, 

 but rather the reverse. It is only by the ex- 

 ercise of vast imagination that the great con- 

 quests of our time are being won. The flights 

 of science and of truth are, after all, the flights 

 of fancy. 



We need new standards. 



We need the poetry of the new kind. 

 Perhaps the day of the formal " sustained " 

 poem has passed, with its ambitious disquisi- 

 tions, long periods, heavy rhetoric, labored 

 metaphors. It is a question, also, whether 



