Proem Memory and the Past Quotes

This line shows how poetry, in its revolutionary uses of language, breaks with the past and its traditions.

The word "recollection" refers not only to remembering or memory, but also to harvesting, like what the gardeners/poets do with the pronouns they pluck.

This line is pretty mysterious with its "terrace of memory." Do you think the poem refers to a collective, cultural memory, or to someone in particular's memory? How can you tell?