Posted by Ron Price Link: http://bahaipioneering.bahaisite.com/
on 3/14/2004, 2:54 am
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ELOQUENCE
Indifference to response of the immediate audience is a necessary trait of all artists that have something new to say. They say what they have to say...Communicability has nothing to do with popularity...no man is eloquent save when someone is moved as he listens....Those who are moved feel, as Tolstoi says, that what the work expresses is as if it were something one had oneself been longing to express...the artist works to create an audience to which he does communicate.-John Dewey, Art as Experience, Capricorn Books, NY, 1958(1934), p.105.
Complete and unhindered communication,
in a world of gulfs and walls
that limit our experience of community,
can be found in some works of art.
Was that why I cried in looking
at your paintings on the wall
when normally art galleries
make me sleepy?
Was that why I wrote so many essays
about Roger Whites poetry,
though noone would publish them?
Is that why I write all this poetry,
to serve the unifying forces of life
breaking out all over this planet?
Ron Price
23 December 1995
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