David Novak - 30 lyrics

"Poets write things in which they don't believe." What does this mean? We don't believe in love? We don't believe that Adam and that Eve, Our ancient parents, heard a Voice above, Telling them not to eat that apple of Knowledge of right and wrong? No, none of these. It means belief, which none of us may prove, Is not our function: those are privacies, Specific to the soul that waits release From bondage to the body to its greater, Lasting and uncommemorative peace, That happens after d**h, and even later. What poets don't believe in, meaning d**h, Was proved fallacious ere they drew their breath.