On economics
Has anything ever allowed more harm to be done on less evidence with less consequence than economics?
Labels: thought
I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more 'in their stride'—the hides grow thicker. I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
— Denise Levertov
— Denise Levertov
Monday, August 19, 2019
