I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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