Ken’s Reviews > The Immoralist > Status Update

Do you know the reason why poetry and philosophy are nothing but dead letter nowadays? It's because they have severed
themselves from life. In Greece, ideas went hand in hand with life; so that the artist's life itself was already a poetic realization, the philosopher's life a putting into action of his philosophy. Nowadays beauty no longer acts; action no longer desires to be beautiful; and wisdom works in a sphere