25 OCTOBER 1946, Page 16

SIR, —From•where does Mr. Dickinson get his quotation: " From words,

not ideas, poetry is made "? The saying is, of course, French, made b9 a poet to a painter-poet who 'complained that, though he was full of ideas, he could not write a line. I suppose that one of the distinction! of poetry is that word and thought are so consubstaat'al that the word enlarges both the depth and breadth of the thought—generally by add ng