[Erik Olson]

I suppose this is more or less my take: Poetry written for the sake of philosophy, as for the sake of anything else, affords not poetry. Poetry written for the sake of poetry itself, however, has been observed to sometimes afford or touch upon philosophy.*

*This statement exaggerates and amplifies; I think this may be true in the more extreme cases of writing poetry for philosophy, but perhaps there is a more subtle or less recognizable interrelation as well, between one's desire to articulate ideas about beauty, truth, etc, on the one hand and the need for poetry to be its own end on the other.