dumbfoundry

'In Israel, poetry is tremendously popular outside universities. You don’t just look like a poet, you are one. The poet is involved with life. There are no special endowments for poets—you have to make a living, which means that a poet isn’t special, isn’t spoiled by society. We should be happy that we can write about ourselves, about what is happening to mankind. A lot of people experience death and wars and bad love affairs and can’t write about it. Poets not only write about it, they get paid for it. Whoever gets paid for a bad love affair? So we should be very happy we can do it.'

This entry was posted by Ivy on Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 9:14 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.