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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Cantos
>Date: Thu, Dec 20, 2001, 6:48 AM
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> In a message dated 12/20/2001 1:23:29 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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>>
>> "Pay no attention to the criticism of a man who has never himself produced
>> a
>> great work." .... EP
>>
>> (or something to that effect.... we're working from memory here)
>>
>> as to reading ... or Writing ... poetry professionally:
>>
>> the only value poetry retains (which most of the other arts have lost)
>> is to be found in its utter and absolute economic uselessness
>>
>>
>
> hear! hear!...
>
> joe brennan....

hear! hear! again, and that's its saving grace-

"no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly
with..."

"The tip's a good one, as for literature
"It gives no man a sinecure.

"And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece.
"And give up verse, my boy,
"There's nothing in it."