Art is long, life is brief. But long is not the same as eternal. Immortality is a trope to help us draw useful distinctions of value between what can last and what should not.
"A poem is an attempt, an intention, to speak words that will outlast their sounds lengthening into silence ..."
“Perhaps we’d be less embarrassed that we are what we long for, and thus maybe we’d long for a better beautiful.”
"A poem is an attempt, an intention, to speak words that will outlast their sounds lengthening into silence ..."
“Perhaps we’d be less embarrassed that we are what we long for, and thus maybe we’d long for a better beautiful.”