6.10.2007

not plague or pandemic

Poetry is not an art form for the mass-media age. It doesn’t create instant hysteria as does a plague or pandemic. Poetry travels quietly and slowly, gradually infecting that portion of the populace predisposed to its life-altering influence.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Indeed, it seeps. Osmosis.

Anna Dabosh said...

I agree.
And too, am glad of it.
For in some ways it is untainted by "mass" consumptive spoiling.

Anna

JforJames said...

Juan Ramon Jimenez has it that "the audience for poetry is not wide, but deep." or something like that.