Poets are sensitive creatures...
Matthew Arnold described Shelley as 'a beautiful and ineffectual archangel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' A poet too delicate for this world - as Jay-Z says, for this 'hard knock life.' As Eliot's recent letters - just-published - remind us, even the most classical minds have romantic agonies. KJ
Dear Kavita
ReplyDeleteIn order to write poetry, one needs to be hyper- sensitive, but in order to market and hype it, one needs skin like rhinoceros hide.
It's an eternal and unresolved dilemma.
Best wishes from Simon