Thursday, June 04, 2009

Two views ...

... Poets - yes, poets -

... Pictures from an Institution. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The idea that poets, by virtue of being poets, are somehow morally superior to anyone is as nonsensical as the idea that priests, by virtue of ordination, are somehow made saints. So-and-so may be a great poet and at the same time a wretched human unqualified thereby for certain roles in society.

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