Before we get carried away with this comfortable assumption, let's give
a moment's memory to Keats, impoverished and coughing his insides out,
while knocking out those odes one-half-step ahead of the reaper.
Marshall Grossman
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David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
> Kevin Farnham wrote:
>> To create significant art, one needs a lot of time, leisure for
>> study, and the bills already paid.
> The locus classicus is Juvenal 7: poetry comes from ""a care-free
> mind" (Anxietate carens animus). Cf. Spenser: "The vaunted verse a
> vacant head demaundes, / Ne wont with crabbed care the Muses dwell"
> ("October," 100-1). To illustrate, Juvenal gives the example of
> Virgil: "Had Virgil lacked a slave, or a decent room, / All of the
> snakes would have fallen from the Fury's hair; / The trumpet been
> mute, no grave note sounded."
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