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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. If only for a moment.

[...] Whosoever has let in one genuine sentence, one paragraph, has felt that seduction like a golden thread being pulled slowly through one. . . .

Whosoever has allowed the villanelle to enter them or the sonnet.

Now, if you think Art is fundamentally important to human beings--not as a notion but as a practical reality--the present anti-artistic (i.e., anti-humanist) thrust of the present party-political climate has to be worrying. Art is not decoration, or something pretty by someone dead. It's not escapi…