Grim By Default
These artificial means
Are easily as bad
As artificial pleasants
Though they fool more thoroughly
The face reflecting my facade.
To play at being angry
Serious business, that.
To gather those reflections
I must be mad.
When all but sometimes
I can portray glad or contented
Mock expressions
JM
2 comments:
In his book World Within World (London, 1951) Stephen Spender tells about meeting Auden when they were both students at Oxford.
"At our first meeting he asked me how often I wrote poetry. Without reflecting, i replied that I wrote about four poems a day. He was astonished and exclaimed:'What energy!' I asked him how often he wrote a poem. He replied: 'I write about one in three weeks.' After this I started writing only one poem in three weeks."
--sm
I belive in the volume method. I write daily but might only have a good one now and then. Mostly then.
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