In The 1920s Dramatists Attacked Their Subjects

Although Birds Coexist With Us On This Eroded Planet, They Live Independently Of Us With A Self-sufficiency That Is Almost A Rebuke. In The World Of Birds A Symposium On The Purpose Of Life Would Be Inconceivable. They Do Not Need It. We Are Not That Self-reliant. We Are The Ones Who Have Lost Our Way.

It Takes Most Men Five Years To Recover From A College Education, And To Learn That Poetry Is As Vital To Thinking As Knowledge.

Bureaucracies Are Designed To Perform Public Business. But As Soon As A Bureaucracy Is Established, It Develops An Autonomous Spiritual Life And Comes To Regard The Public As Its Enemy.

It Seems To Me That The Thing That Makes The Theater Worthwhile Is The Fact That It Attracts So Many People With Ideas Who Are Constantly Trying To Share Them With The Public. Real Art Is Illumination. It Gives A Man An Idea He Never Had Before Or Lights Up Ideas That Were Formless Or Only Lurking In The Shadows Of His Mind. It Adds Stature To Life.

Materialism Is Decadent And Degenerate Only If The Spirit Of The Nation Has Withered And If Individual People Are So Unimaginative That They Wallow In It.