It isnt necessary for you to understand astrophysics or inorganic chemistry or even my poetry. Its only necessary that the astrophysicist, the chemist or, in my case, the reader of poetry understand it. If my writing is of value to those who are capable of assuming or willing to assume my point of view, those who are members of what might be called a certain community of understanding and who can participate in a specific framework of interpretation, then it will be read. People will read it because it is of value to them. If it is of no value to them, it will not be read, except by me. -Ron Price with thanks to William Hatcher, The Science of Religion, Bahai Studies, Vol.2, September 1977, pp.35-6.![]()
When language and vision
coalesced in this poetry
a new attitude was born
and there gradually evolved,
at least I trusted it to be so,
a stylisation: unique, fresh,
complex, rich in coherence
and embedded comment,
with my finger on the pulse,
the causative principle,
of history, with a unity of form
that was buried beneath
line after line of an immense,
a staggering multiplicity.
Ron Price
3 November 2000