In an age of cement and steel, what need for poets?

Waterfall Painting by Je' Czaja
Waterfall
Painting by Je’ Czaja

This is the age of science, of steel — of speed and the cement road. The age of hard faces and hard highways. Science and steel demand the medium of prose. Speed requires only the look — the gesture. What need then, for poetry?

Great need!

There are souls, in these noise-tired times, that turn aside into unfrequented lanes, where the deep woods have harbored the fragrances of many a blossoming season. Here the light, filtering through perfect forms, arranges itself in lovely patterns for those who perceive beauty…

Roy J. Cook, author of One Hundred and One Famous Poems

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