This new American poetry, this creativity of the Age, will not be confined to man and pen. With both left and right brain humming, our children will illuminate their future. That is what artists have always done. For vision is prophecy in the sense that Art allows us to see our destiny. It is the torch we pass.
Every testament is a risk.
Ask Martin Luther. No man's thumb is far from his own hammer. But at some point in his lifetime each artist must nail that testament up or feel forever a complete slave to the past, a past that created and nurtured him and that he respects and loves. The artist knows that the only way to preserve the real values of the art that preceded him is to burst from the prison of its forms and reassert the art's true nature in new shapes and contents. The new wine bursts the old bottles.