Coming of epileptoid stock They tell the time without a clock. NONSENSE IS NEVER JUST NONSENSE; it is more like good sense with all the logic removed. At its highest point poetry makes use of nonsense in order to indicate a level of experience beyond the causality principle. You don’t quicken or laugh at nonsense because it is complete non-sense; but because you detect its resemblance to sense. Logic, syntax, is a causal instrument, inadequate for the task of describing the whole of reality. Poems don’t describe, but they are sounding-boards which enable the alert consciousness to pick up the reverberations of the extra-causal reality for itself. Poems are negatives; hold them up to a clean surface of daylight and you get an apprehension of grace. The words carry in them complete submerged poems; as you read your memory goes down like the loud pedal of a piano, and all tribal, personal, associations begin to reverberate. Poems are blueprints. They are not buildings but they enable you to build for yourself.
