Albert Goldbarth Quote

"Is it going to be important to poetry in the future?  It will be important to everything in the future.  Your grandchildren will wake up in the morning to the sound of the computer screen, the computer screen will lead them into their breakfast, will lead them into and become the entirety of their jobs where they will sit facing that screen that has the approval of the government and of the advertising industry behind it.  They will be there for their 8-hour day--their personal lives, their sex lives, their parental lives will all occur on and through that screen.  They will come home, they will watch that screen for government and advertising-world-approved entertainment, they will fall asleep again.  Will that computer be important to poetry and art in general? Oh yes--But it won't be my poetry.  It won't be anything that i care about and i imagine i won't be here to see the full fruition of that vision." --Albert Goldbarth