Anecdotal Evidence: `To Keep Art From Being Too Refined'

Anecdotal Evidence: `To Keep Art From Being Too Refined'
Excerpt:
Anthony Hecht writes in “The Gardens of the Villa D’Este,” collected in his first book, A Summoning of Stones (1954):

“For thus it was designed:
Controlled disorder at the heart
Of everything, the paradox, the old
Oxymoronic itch to set formal strictures
Within a natural context, where the tension lectures
Us on our moral state, and by controlled
Disorder, labors to keep art
From being too refined.”