Why poetry now?!
We live in an age of betrayals, conspiracies, and assassinations. We pant through twenty-four crowded, deadly hours in a frame of extended, neglected time that does not give any importance to our entire lives. We live in vortexes, labyrinths, and alienation. We live in oppression, fear, and hunger. So why poetry now?!
Who has time for poetry? Who has time to write poetry?! Who has time to receive poetry?!
Poetry riots against betrayal, conspiracy, and murder, or it riots against triviality, superficiality, and sorcery. If poetry does not say: “No” in a blatant, loud, and hurtful way, then it does not accept to say: “Yes,” even by cutting off its head.
It's that great positive thing. It is what confirms to us that we cry because we are not yet accustomed to humiliation and have not accepted it, that we bleed because we have not died, and that we are angry because we have not adapted to injustice. It alerts us to what we have almost forgotten, and reminds us that we are human, and that we are bigger and greater than our daily lives.
we are human beings. We must always remember this, and poetry must always remind us of this.
We are greater than profit and loss, greater than acceptance and surrender, or malice and evasion.
So poetry is necessary.
Therefore, a poet is necessary.
في “فكر وازدد ثراء”، يشدد نابليون هيل على أهمية التخطيط المنظم كأحد العناصر الحيوية للنجاح والثراء. يعتقد هيل أن القيام بخطة عملية ومتوازنة لتحقيق الأهداف الخاصة بك ليس فقط مفيدًا، بل أيضًا ضروريًا. تتطلب عملية التخطيط المنظم تحديد الأهداف بوضوح، ثم وضع خطة مفصلة توضح كيفية تحقيق هذه الأهداف.
Boatman:
Whoever reflects on what people say and do, arrives at the almost certain conclusion that they say one thing and do the complete opposite. You find them praising the philosophy of such-and-such thinker and the depth of his theses, but they do not follow his programs or read his publications. In return, they criticize such-and-such artist’s lifestyle and superficiality. Her ideas...but at the same time they follow all of her work, and do not miss an episode of it.
Personally, I am not surprised by this contradiction, for a fundamental reason... which is that it is an inherent part of human nature in all places and times... and the words that I am writing now, the great sociologist Abdul Rahman bin Khaldun preceded me six centuries ago, and perhaps many scholars before and after him... Therefore, we must recognize that the inherent natures of human beings do not change radically, but rather develop and improve if they find something that helps them to develop and improve.
It often happens that human natures remain as they are, stagnant, if they do not find the intellectual and moral nourishment that elevates them to the highest level. It also happens that they relapse, become brutal, and go back for many years if the nourishment is negative and worse off than before.
Consider the condition of the societies around us. Some of them have a better present than their past, and others have a better past than their present. The whole reason is due to the nature of the intellectual and moral nourishment to which their members are exposed.
