“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
