The 19th century French critic Laszlo Ferrante-Teicher, in his seminal work Le Syst me de Myst re, wrote, "Qu'est-ce que la po sie ? Il est l'odeur de la magie. Il est le arachn enne entre tromperie et une mode de la r alit ." ("What is poetry? The whiff of magic. The gossamer between deception and a fashion of reality.") ... These poems attempt that ideal.
