Modern writers have a tendency to seek the expression of power rather than of beauty. When birds turn into animals, which happens according to certain theories, they become heavy and dense; and in the same way people, after having sought beauty, may turn into pursuers of power. Seeking beauty means going upward, but pursuing power means going downward; and when the birds come down the sparrows turn into barnyard fowls. It is owing to the materialism and commercialism of our time that poets are becoming more dense. Also, nowadays there are so many writers and so few poets. This itself shows that instead of going upward we are going downward.