Paul Durcan

It is promulgated by the arbiters of culture that an artist should have only one spouse. An artist such as myself wth the two spouses of poetry and picture-making is not looked upon favourably by the chaperones of art.

Let us be chivalrous to the chaperones but let us never compromise with their punitive monomania. Art is not a prison with poetry in one cell, picture-making in another cell and so on. "Spare me the ghostly procession of your conceptual categories" wrote Nicolas Berdyaev.

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