Poet's Creed

Borges states that:
1. poetry is the language that is music, passionate
2. for a book to be great, you need something pleasing to the imagination, characters people believe in. it is not the story or the parable that people believe but what makes it believe, but it is the characters that people believe.
3. some works (like Edgar Allan Poe's work)should be read when you are young.
4. literature begins with verse and so forth (a pattern). a free-verse disrupts the pattern so it is harder to write than a verse.
5. if the reader thinks the writer has a moral defect, he will not put up with the writer or his work.
6. we are already modern so there is no reason to strive to be modern; we live in the present.
7. being a writer means being true to imagination; one must be loyal to the dream, not the circumstances around it.
8. only believe in allusions.
the meaning is not important but music, like the way of saying things, is what is important.
9. ultimately, we are writing for the audience and their experience.