Hegel said that art was a thing of the past. It pleases me to say: to the
contrary, poetry is a question for the future, so much so that the future
itself belongs to poetry, is poetry. Without poetry there will be no future.
The time that would see poetry die will itself be just another death.
Poetry does not have a time: it is time.
—Adonis, "A Language That Exiles Me,"(boundary 2 / Spring 1999), translated by Pierre Joris
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