[The poetic imagination] has as its most immediate end nothing more ambitious than a vivid realization of what Gerald Manley Hopkins called the "inscape" of things. . . . Something to be discovered only by seeing-into, by a strict and loving attention to the radical actuality of things of earth. . . .The poetic world is rooted in the concrete particularity of lived experience; and poetic art, in its deepest aspect, is a way of loving the concrete, the particular, the individual. . . . The intensity of its love for the quiddities and haecceities of experience conditions the poetic imagination, in other words, to view whatever it contemplates as ignited by the capacity for exchange, for reciprocity: it has the dimension of presence.
And, having the dimension of presence, things exist always for the poetic imagination in relationship: the world is a body wherein all things are "members one of another."
— Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry