Works Of Art Must Persist As Objects

The Farther A Society Progresses, The More Clearly The Individual Becomes The Antithesis Of The Group.

These Are The Sensations And Feelings That Are Gradually Blunted By Education, Staled By Custom, Rejected In Favor Of Social Conformity.

To Realize That New World We Must Prefer The Values Of Freedom And Equality Above All Other Values - Above Personal Wealth, Technical Power And Nationalism.

The Great Modern Heresy In Poetry Is To Confuse The Use We Make Of Words In A Poem With Modalities Of Speech...for True Poetry Is Never Speech But Always A Song.

But All Categories Of Art, Idealistic Or Realistic, Surrealistic Or Constructivist (a New Form Of Idealism) Must Satisfy A Simple Test (or They Are In No Sense Works Of Art): They Must Persist As Objects Of Contemplation.