"(the poet) bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions, neither more or less."
To be equable is to be calm and clear sighted. The poet needs to be able to see all things as one and approach things honestly and on neutral grounds. Hermann Hesse once said that for everything that is true, the opposite is just as true. The poet must acknowledge this twenty-fold and realize that not only are truth and lie the same but also that a coin has infinite sides and that each one exists in entirety and rationality. 'He is no arguer, he is judgement. He judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.' Walt says of the poet. Poet must be one of infinite wisdom and clear-sighted interpretism.
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