"As human beings we've certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we're not here— we're not put on earth— to shape it anyway we want... You want something to happen with poetry, but it doesn't make anything happen. So then somebody says, "What's the use of poetry?" Then you say, "Well, what's the use of a cloud? What's the use of a river? What's the use of a tree?" They don't make anything happen."
Nature
Caribbean
Writing
Poetry