Faith is a continuation of reason.
Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.
It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly – not so much the good things but the bland things – the ordinary things – the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.