All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. 744
It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 2.51K
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. 646
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. 2.33K
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. 683
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. 804
