You Wanted To Destroy Philosophy And Poetry….
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant—without philosophy, licentious […]
Category: Word
One Cannot Pass By Poetry
One cannot pass by poetry if one attaches value to tradition. The whole of the Bible breathes poetry—epic, lyric and dramatic—and likewise […]
Poet As Hierophant
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration—the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Percy Bysshe Shelley […]
Standing Out In Thunderstorms
“A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or […]
A Teller Of Tales
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything […]
Art Today
Art today can only be revolutionary, that is, it must aspire at the complete and radical reconstruction of society, even if for […]
Ages Of Careless Usage
Temperament, whether individual or collective, is not amenable topersuasion. All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when […]
The World Fears A New Experience
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. It can’t pigeon-hole a real experience. It can only dodge. The […]
To Know The West
The authentic Western voice is one heard often in life but only rarely in literature, the reason being that to truly know […]
Many Cities, Men & Things
For the sake of a few lines one must see many cities, men and things. Rainer Maria Rilke ❏