An excerpt from End of the Year Letter to Friends

So that's that.
But this doesn't mean I am giving up in what all those
before me, before us, those who were foolish like me
and some of you, of us, believed in and worked hard
to preserve in order that the City
wouldn't be destroyed by gods -- that is, as long
as there is at least one who believes in the not
believable, in short, in
Poetry.

-- Jan 3. 2003

Jonas Mekas