With the onset of recession, the arts will be even more under-funded. In one respect, however, artists come into their own in difficult social times and great things can result. Those arts which are produced in private or cost little or nothing may be the ones to have a boom - and I hope this will be the case with poetry and other forms of creative writing. Today I came across the August column on Jeanette Winterson's Website, which is a very open admission of hard times emotionally for Jeanette, but which also contains some very uplifting words...so today's 'Pellet' is a quote from Jeanette:
'When people say that art is a luxury it is because they have never known its healing power.'
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