> joseph berg quotes Walt Whitman: > > > >> - To have great poets, there must be great audiences. > > Here's a suggested revision:
- To have great poets well fed, there must be great audiences. And Joseph quotes Virginia Woolf: > > - Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome > > of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the > people, > > so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. > > > > Virginia Woolf > This is questionable. There may be the experience of "a" mass behind the "artist's" voice, in the way that Woolf's own voice was conditioned by her experience of the highly sophisticated Bloomsbury voice in which she lived. But "the" mass?
