"To the few who love me and whom I love to those who feel rather than to those who think to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities I offer this Book of Truths not in its character of Truth-Teller but for the Beauty that abounds in its Truth; constituting it true. To these I present the composition as an Art-Product alone: let us say as a Romance; or if I be not urging too lofty a claim as a Poem."