It Is Not My Purpose As A

There Are A Few People, But A Diminishing Number, Who Still Believe That Marxism, As An Economic System, Off Era A Coherent Alternative To Capitalism, And Socialism Has, Indeed, Triumphed In One Country.

Modern Man Has Been In Search Of A New Language Of Form To Satisfy New Longings And Aspirations - Longings For Mental Appeasement, Aspirations To Unity, Harmony, Serenity - An End To His Alienation From Nature. All These Arts Of Remote Times Or Strange Cultures Either Give Or Suggest To The Modern Artist Forms Which He Can Adapt To His Needs, The Elements Of A New Iconography.

It Is Not My Purpose As A Poet To Condemn War (or To Be Exact, Modern Warfare). I Only Wish To Present The Universal Aspects Of A Particular Event.

In Order To Create It Is Necessary To Destroy; And The Agent Of Destruction In Society Is The Poet. I Believe That The Poet Is Necessarily An Anarchist, And That He Must Oppose All Organized Conceptions Of The State, Not Only Those Which We Inherit From The Past, But Equally Those Which Are Imposed On People In The Name Of The Future.

It Was Nietzsche Who First Made Us Conscious Of The Significance Of The Individual As A Term In The Evolutionary Process-in That Part Of The Evolutionary Process Which Has Still To Take Place.