I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.