top of page
Search
veradapozzo8

Poets, Politicians and the Fall of Civilizations


Too busy and tired to rewrite the final part of my last article that had not be saved on Wix, I have just the time to publish a quote from Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American poet, film-maker and artist (1922-2019) who was, with his brother Adolfas (1925-2011), the founder of the magazine Film Culture and the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.



"In the end, Civilizations perish because they listen to their Politicians rather than to their Poets" (Jonas Mekas)

English translation by me.

I would like to find the original quote, because it is strange to re-translate in English a quote that has been translated from English to French.


The Maison de la Poésie (the Poetry House) is in the charming Passage Molière, a tiny street in Beaubourg, near the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The picture above is taken from the Maison de la Poésie website.

I took many pictures of this place and Passage Molière between 2020 and 2022, but it would be too long to find them among the huge amount of photographs I took and saved in my old laptop.



1 view0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

コメント


Post: Blog2_Post
bottom of page