poets often commit suicide, poems bad good. heard a bad poet committin — Walker Percy, Lost Cosmos: Last Self-Help Book

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Walker Percy

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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

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