On The Last Day Of The World

Politically It Would Be Terribly Repressive To Prevent People From Having As Many Children As They Want. But Something's Got To Prevent It; And It Won't Be Pleasant... We're Still Behaving In Ways That Have Become Disastrous... I Don't Think This Helps Us To Survive... We're Very Species-centric... And Now Exist At The Expense Of Every Other Form Of Life On Earth.

The Global Warming Is Going On. These Are Not Single Cases. These Are All Part Of A General Way We've Been Looking At The World. As Long As We Look At The World That Way It's Going To Go On. Because The Idea That The Important Thing Is For Some People Get Rich While The Rest Of The People Work For Them Is Very Deeply Dug In...

The Story Of Each Stone Leads Back To A Mountain.

The Divine Comedy Is A Political Poem And When You Say Poetry Is Not About - He's Always Quoted Out Of Context, That "poetry Makes Nothing Happen," That Doesn't Mean You Shrug Your Shoulders And Don't Try To Make Anything Happen. And Dante Felt That Poetry Was Engaged, There Was A Point Of View; It's Not My Point Of View, It's Orthodox Medieval Christianity, And I Have My Troubles With That. He Didn't Feel That You Could Just Rule Out So Important A Section Of Life - We Care About These Things, And It's Out Of Caring About Them That We Write Poetry.

We Travel Far And Fast And As We Pass Through We Forget Where We Have Been