As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.- T.S. Eliot, born on this date in1888
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thought for the day ...
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Well, you just wrecked my day!
ReplyDeleteJoseph Brodsky said that poetry was an "accelerated mental process." Certainly we write for the wonder of operating at a higher r.p.m., if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteBut beyond that, he said that we write "to please a shadow" -- for our ancestors, not our descendants. We write to continue the thread of conversation they left behind.
I think Tom Eliot must have been having a very, very bad day when he wrote this.