in your opinion of "roses should have been here . . ." (that work of such incomparable delicacy and form) you are of course quite, quite incontestably right, as against the man who wrote the introduction. but let me make this request right away: read as little as possible of literary criticism. such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are clever word-games, in which one view wins , and tomorrow the opposite view. works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentation, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress

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