WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT Quotes

“On Social Media people always seem to appear and then disappear. Befriend you as a writer perhaps because they think that you can just help them reach their goals or just maybe because they've heard of you. On some? Like on Instagram? Follow you and then unfollow you in their own shallow pathetic pursuit of looking popular. Not giving two shits about you or have any real interest in your actual work. Once upon a time that used to really bother me because they obviously lack authenticity & any manners. But after thirty some years of writing & publishing and creating and actually earning all of the merits and being myself, being true to the words and all the poetry that is the only real thing that truly matters? I simply say to all of them.

Fuck you. I'm R.M. Engelhardt

And if you haven't heard of me or read any of my work then obviously you don't really know much about poetry”
― R.M. Engelhardt, WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

“People who ban books are pretty much assholes who fear knowledge because knowledge is power.

Just ask the Nazis.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

“Beautiful day.

Art matters. Poetry & literature matters. Friends matter. Life and light matter. Remembering the true history of the world and honesty matters. Words matter. Please don't waste your time on overaught social media, vapid pop stars and lunatic millionaires, icons without any real substance. If you want to change the world? Make the real things matter.

Reality.

It's a revolution.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals that call themselves " experts" or " critics" . The sad fact is that throughout that same history people actually were gullible and listened to them and bought their books or paintings. We no longer live in the age where poets were mass- read or rockstars but even now, in the 21st century we unfortunately must still deal with these ridiculous fops who merely give themselves these titles and use this as a tool to destroy or slander, debase or tear apart the works of other more talented poets so that their needy lackluster words will steal the other poets thunder and limelight to make themselves the center of attention. How pathetic is that? Very pathetic indeed. Hence ? We are far smarter than those who once fell for these self centered antics and we have thankfully made these manipulative con artists extinct. POETRY & ART is for EVERYBODY. From different countries, backgrounds and cultures. And the myth of experts or critics has finally been flushed down the toilet where they belong. Their words & voices now meaning what it was in the first place. NOTHING.”
― R.M. Engelhardt , WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

“All writing is experimental when it comes to prose & poetry. And when people demean or insult someone's ideas or work in such a manner it shows ignorance & arrogance.

The close minded never progress.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT

“Without myth, imagination we are only half-people, trapped in a wasteland of our own creation.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, WHERE THERE IS NO VISION POEMS 2020 R.M. ENGELHARDT