my friend, Onofri Arturo, thus spoke:
We want poets to rise their interior accentuation above all sentimentalisms
and wan virtuosities and courtly pastimes for literates and
pseudo-literates, who have rightly disgusted and diverted from poetry the
serious audience, that is the ones who sweat with their forehead and soul;
and to abandon rubbish songs, exhibitionist personalism, as well as polemic
behaviors as conquerors of the void by those who exalt mechanics or the much
lived, all the swill in which they are entangled. And poets should unclothe
art from all vanities; or from tiny schools, or miserable revolutions or
petty traditions, or literary meaningless styles, which are all paltry
mincing and parodistic things, heroicomic if not totally comic, when
compared to the powerful and true gait of Poetry.
...
end Chapter V
and from the beginning of Chapter VI:
...
Each human creature, both by artistically creating, and by contemplating the
art produced by other creatures, enters a spirit of communion with that same
human essence which is the unique Spirit of humanity and which lives within
the same men. From here radiantly rises the motivation for which the great
and true artistic masterpieces always show an essentially religious
character and partake that spirit of terrestrial and celestial communion in
which art has its supreme reason and consecration of life, like the Odyssey,
the Parthenon, the Divine Comedy, the Sistine Chapel, the Betrothed, Faust
or Tristan. The highest works of art do not base themselves on an aesthetic
personal conception, which is a property of the man-artist, but they perform
and breath, following an intimate and free will of origin, the cosmic
meaning of the life of men and of the universe. They are works of
brotherhood and of salvation, they are the signs which express the divine
origin of man, and by representing it to him in actual harmonies join man to
his own celestial essence and to his destiny of infinite communion among
beings, apparently marked, but in reality strictly connected among
themselves by the only self, who lives in their distinct presences and who
is also the true and only Self of each one.
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