“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
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It's 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.
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.
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.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.