Toilet Wipes or Fine Wine
October 18th 2006 10:55
Suffering two afflictions of the mad writer:
1) fine wine or
2) toilet wipe.
As a poet, often I've fluctuated between the two extremes. Occassionaly, I believe I've written a masterpiece or voiced the ultimate phrase. Then I think of Twain. I believe it was he who said something that equates to: if you think you have a bottle of fine wine you more than likely have toilet wipes. And then I think of Keats, Donne, Bronte, Joyce, or Cervantes and I wonder why I even bother at all.
Really, how much should we trust our voice on the status of a work? or even the given voice of works already holding status?
I've taken the battle to them. Let them judge my works, I am curious. It's time we made up our own minds.
1) fine wine or
2) toilet wipe.
As a poet, often I've fluctuated between the two extremes. Occassionaly, I believe I've written a masterpiece or voiced the ultimate phrase. Then I think of Twain. I believe it was he who said something that equates to: if you think you have a bottle of fine wine you more than likely have toilet wipes. And then I think of Keats, Donne, Bronte, Joyce, or Cervantes and I wonder why I even bother at all.
Really, how much should we trust our voice on the status of a work? or even the given voice of works already holding status?
I've taken the battle to them. Let them judge my works, I am curious. It's time we made up our own minds.
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Comment by Lily
Ars Poetica
'status of a work'?
i'm unfamiliar with this term..
To judge others work; is to compare (a slow decline);
to relate and empathise with; is to walk side by side,
knowing that your voice is relative relative relative.. simply because it's yours and you were there at the time... let them inspire you, not make you look too harshly upon yourself...
curiosity is a good thing, it widens the spectrum a bit...
i've made up my mind; i write about what i know, and what i experience and what i feel all around me... i'm sure Keats, Donne, Bronte, Joyce, or Cervantes did too; either that or they had good imaginations... i suspect they wrote a lot which refined their words, much like a fine wine...i bet they had a lot of rushed toilet wipes that they flushed away and no one ever saw too...
~Lily
Comment by theadora
at the boardroom
Ad Magnum Opus
indeed their genius inspires me.
Poems or any writing must be more than just words on a page, feelings, or experience. They must hold some eternal truth or mastery, they must be at the same time tangible and trancendental. If this is achieved then they must have achieved the status of genius.
i've had my share of toilet wipe, of course it's useful but it's not essential. Fine wine on the other hand...
great imaginations make genius...