And what new thrill does this one bring
With legs astride and eyes aglow;
How many praises can one sing
Of something someone cannot know?
Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows, Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
And what new thrill does this one bring
With legs astride and eyes aglow;
How many praises can one sing
Of something someone cannot know?
This just makes me ill your name is dripping from my pen
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot