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Poetry is a case of the loser winning. And the genuine poet chooses to lose, even if he has to go as far as to die, in order to win. (...)He is certain of the total defeat of the human enterprise and arranges to fail in his own life in order to bear witness, by his individual defeat to human defeat in general. Thus, he contests, as we shall see, which is what the prose-writer does too. But the contesting of prose is carried on in the name of a greater success; and that of poetry, in the name of the hidden defeat which every victory conceals. Jean-Paul Sartre What is Writing?
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:53:21 +0000

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