Crovax The Cursed (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} evincar) wrote,@ 2009-02-18 17:28:00 |
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here's a dirty book worth reading ( - Ezra Pound)
Henry Miller wrote that. he also wrote:
i find i agree with much of what he used to say. does that mean i agree with everything he says? i don't know, and i don't think that's a relevant question. he wrote in another time. there is no agreeing or disagreeing with him, in that sense, when he's talking about the world and our place in it. that world is gone, and so is he. they say the world never changes, but i think it does. much in the way that your body contains not a single molecule that composed it when you were a child, the world renews itself with every generation, and is fundamentally different with every half-century or so.
on art, he's still current. that much i know.
| When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos that is about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears. |
Henry Miller wrote that. he also wrote:
| To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is that I want to sing. Then this is a song, I'm singing. |
i find i agree with much of what he used to say. does that mean i agree with everything he says? i don't know, and i don't think that's a relevant question. he wrote in another time. there is no agreeing or disagreeing with him, in that sense, when he's talking about the world and our place in it. that world is gone, and so is he. they say the world never changes, but i think it does. much in the way that your body contains not a single molecule that composed it when you were a child, the world renews itself with every generation, and is fundamentally different with every half-century or so.
on art, he's still current. that much i know.
