Hart Crane again

Hart Crane has more and more to say to us now, he seems more and more relevant to our times in poetry:

“For poetry is an architectural art, based not on Evolution or the idea of progress, but on the articulation of the contemporary human consciousness sub specie aeternitatis, and inclusive of all readjustments incident to that consciousness. The key to the process of free creative activity which Coleridge gave us in his Lectures on Shakespeare exposes the responsibilities of every poet, modern or ancient, and cannot be improved upon. “No work of true genius,” he says, “dares want its appropriate form, neither indeed is there any danger of this. As it must not, so genius can not, be lawless; for it is even this that constitutes its genius---the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.”

Hart Crane. “Modern Poetry” (1930)