On the will-to-power over poetry that critics often attempt to impose:
"Legislation and codification go against the nature of poetic language, for this language, since it is man's expression of his explosive moods, his impetuousness, his difference, is incandescent, constantly renewing itself, heterogeneous, kinetic and explosive, always a disrupter of codes and systems. It is the search for the self, and the return to the self, but by means of a perpetual exodus away from the self [i.e., ecstasy]."
An Introduction to Arab Poetics, 34.
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