 Of the arts, poetry is often singled out in Maritain’s discussions of beauty and contemplation. Yet Maritain’s definition of ‘poetry’ is unique; it is, he writes, “that intercommunication between the inner being things of and the inner being of the human self which is a kind of divination” (Creative Intuition, 1953: 3)—though some critics remain uncertain of what Maritain means by this. Through poetry, then, Maritain held that there can be a contemplation of “the inner being of things” and, thereby, of beauty (Trapani 2011: 163). Thus, there is a close relation between the understanding of being in philosophy, and poetry (see Chenet 2012). 