May 24, 2008
guillaume sez
In 1917:
In an epoch when the popular art par excellence, the cinema, is in essence a picture-book, it would be strange if poets did not try to create pictures for meditative, more sophisticated persons who find the productions of the film makers too crude. Eventually films will be more refined, and it is possible to see the day when the phonograph and the cinema will be the only current forms of reproduction, and when as a result poets will enjoy a freedom hitherto unknown.
And also:
When a modern poet gives polyphonic expression to the whirring of an airplane, we must see it above all as the poet's desire to accustom his mind to reality.
There is no question other than the relation of freedom to reality. This is in every regard a historical question.
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