“I’ve been privileged to know and befriend some of the world’s most extraordinary poets. Dannye, Anne, and Roger have been crafting beauty from chaos for years. As Maria Popova wisely observed, ‘The chaos of particles that liquefies solids and vaporizes liquids is just the creative force by which the new order of a more stable structure finds itself. The world would not exist without these discomposing transitions, during which everything seems to be falling apart.’
A century before Toni Morrison, facing another era of upheaval, proclaimed, ‘This is precisely the time when artists go to work.’ Similarly, my beloved author Herman Hesse asserted that during times of chaos, artists nourish the human spirit “with such strength and indescribable beauty” that it is “flung so high and dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment.”
November 7, 2024, should mark the dawn of humanity’s most creative era. Poets, authors, composers, actors, musicians, and artists bear a sacred duty to the world: to produce works of clarity, truth, and beauty. As E.M. Forster eloquently stated, ‘Ancient Athens made a mess — but the Antigone stands up. Renaissance Rome made a mess — but the ceiling of the Sistine got painted. James I made a mess — but there was Macbeth. Louis XIV — but there was Phèdre. Art… is the one orderly product which our muddling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden.'”
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