The House
of
Damaged
Goods

"in a stronger
age
than this decaying,
self-doubting
present,
he must yet come to us,
the redeeming man,
of great love and contempt,
the creative spirit
whose
compelling strength
will not let him
rest in any
aloofness
or
any beyond
whose isolation is misunderstood
by the people as if
it were flight from reality--
while
it is only his absorption,
immersion, penetration into
reality, so that
when he one day
emerges again
into the light,
he may bring home
the redemption of this reality...