¶ Poets
Index Entry
Poets:
“The young life realizes that the older life is holding to the familiar, in opposition to evolution. This is an interesting point to identify the prescience of the poet. What man tends to call a poet is one whose sensitivity has not been so damaged, where the thoughts flow almost subconsciously, where all the tastebuds of sound have been undamaged and the communication capability is very, very high. Their full vision is unimpaired. Time and again the poet will say what the nonpoet will not dare to say. He is afraid to hear his own voice-- the poet’s not. The poet’s not afraid because he’s not thinking in terms of his own voice. It’s irrepressible; and so time and again poets have said very extraordinary things long before the rest of society recognized the significance of what they were saying.”
¶ Citations
- RBF in Preface for Francis Marner, p. 5, circa 1970
