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“Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.”

Poet Drink All Things Our Time

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.”

Moments Political Life Is Moral Poet This Life Planes Our Time Synthesis Moral Life

Author:Rose Macaulay

“The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.”

Source: The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”

Trying Mind May Earth Values Animal Common Vision Magic Ignorance Poet Solitude Approach Our Time Soil Wilderness Ecstasy Tribes Rebirth Fertility Initiation

Author:Gary Snyder