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