Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.