Yours is the popular view—that art requires
Purposes, meanings, even moralities
With which we artists, sir, are not concerned.
The Stranger.
O, no. I merely inquire. I wish to hear
From one who knows. I am a little puzzled.
You have dismissed so much—this outer world
And all its laws; and now this other, too.
I am no moralist; but I must confess
That, in the greatest Art, I have always found