While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyon...
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
The sky is not the limit
There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
I love to collect modern art.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
