A lot of tinkering. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.