…course, overstress this necessity of vocabulary, of words. There's a very interesting and instructive story which concerns the great French painter Degas and the equally great French poet Mallarmé, Degas in his spare time used to write verses and one day he…

…words. There's a very interesting and instructive story which concerns the great French painter Degas and the equally great French poet Mallarmé, Degas in his spare time used to write verses and one day he met Mallarmé and said to Mallarmé it's a terrible…

…I have such wonderful ideas but when I write them down the verse is very bad it isn't poetry and Mallarmé answered my dear Degas Poetry is not made with ideas, it is made with words. And this is the profoundly important fact. I mean that it is this…