8.09.2009

publish and perish

For poets it’s more a matter of publish and perish.

2 comments:

Andrew Shields said...

Or just perish!

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of the world's worst revision by a major poet—Auden's changing of the last line of his poem "September 1, 1939" from "We must love one another or die" to "We must love one another and die [italics mine]." Perish the thought!