[New-Poetry] Re: Ambition

[David Bircumshaw]

this is interesting, Richard, although I'd take a stance against Duchamps,
not wanting fame, not wanting to succeed in the 'system', can equally be a
component in a writer's psychology. I'd hazard that it depends upon the
individual's time and place, on their circumstances: we can see this if we
look back - to be known certainly mattered to say Milton or Pope or Byron
but definitely did NOT to Hopkins or Emily Dickinson.

Each to their own, hey?

best

Dave


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> Ambition is what takes the writer to the place where the writing is born.
> And keeps them there until the work is completed.
>
> Duchamps believed that art required fame as a component of a completed
> success.  An unknown poet does not know everything there is to know about
> how to succeed in poetry - - according to Duchamps.
>
> Richard Dillon
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