"Only the work of 1 poet in a 1000 survives. Who knows who chooses them."
And what person will survive in the sense of contribution. What poet or
scientist will survive and why? Has to do with more than taste or popular
opinion. What effect has that literary lifeform had? To what reward?
Though we may vehemently point the way. Naming names and forms. Public
relations, our testimonies spun of our best resources. Those literary
lifeforms have a life of their own.
What musical compositions will survive and why? Music a another form of
life. Spirit, yes. But life. What continues from one generation to the next
has life. What has that power to move from one generation to the next and
why?
Incidentally, Douglas Clark, rather find splendid your poetry. It's a
literary lifeform, surely. One that you have nurtured, and we all the better
for having it.
Best
Those after us make the
Ernest Slyman
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