Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
Writing poetry is a pleasure,. . . a pleasure out of hell
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.
Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.