body

evil

 everyone talks about, but it remains unlistened to.

The body: everyone talks about it, but it remains unlistened to.

is absolute, even when it's a mere matter of hatred.

Evil is absolute, even when it's a mere matter of hatred.

is no virtue: it keeps too comfortably by the hearth.

Being patient is no virtue: it keeps too comfortably by the hearth.

Poetry is chiseled silence, word by word.

is defined in each word, and then the next word comes forward.

Poetry: each word defines it, but then the next word comes forward.

every morning is still to be made, not completed.

Every morning the world is still to be made, not completed.