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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
- Laura RidingPhoto by Mark Harpur on Unsplash
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
- Laura RidingBecause most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run...
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give...
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me....
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the...
With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important.
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