One Does Not Realize The Historical Sensation

The Modern City Hardly Knows A Pure Darkness Or True Silence Anymore, Nor Does It Know The Effect Of A Single Small Light Or That Of A Lonely Distant Shout.

In Europe Art Has To A Large Degree Taken The Place Of Religion. In America It Seems Rather To Be Science.

If A Serious Statement Is Defined As One That May Be Made In Terms Of Waking Life, Poetry Will Never Rise To The Level Of Seriousness. It Lies Beyond Seriousness, On That More Primitive And Original Level Where The Child, The Animal, The Savage, And The Seer Belong, In The Region Of Dream, Enchantment, Ecstasy, Laughter. To Understand Poetry We Must Be Capable Of Donning The Child's Soul Like A Magic Cloak And Of Forsaking Man's Wisdom For The Child's.

Play Is Older Than Culture, For Culture, However Inadequately Defined, Always Presupposes Human Society, And Animals Have Not Waited For Man To Teach Them Their Playing.

Revolution As An Ideal Concept Always Preserves The Essential Content Of The Original Thought: Sudden And Lasting Betterment.