I’m still trying to win. And I’m not dead. And the idea that I’m trying to win against such hopeless odds to me is not unrealistic, but it is tragic, I think, if things don’t change. If something other than corporate capitalism doesn’t win.
I’m still trying to win. And I’m not dead. And the idea that I’m trying to win against such hopeless odds to me is not unrealistic, but it is tragic, I think, if things don’t change. If something other than corporate capitalism doesn’t win.
“I don’t have any great notion about where I stand as a poet. That will be taken care of by those wiser people who come later on the scene than we do. Thus, as in their turn, those opinions too will be revalued over and over. None of us knows in what direction poetry and those other arts will turn — that’s part of the cruel fascination of being interested in the arts as you are, and keeping your head about it.”
Conrad Aiken