Life Work
In the life after death, poets
Will be the only ones in the same
Line of work. Doctors will have nothing
To scapel. Tax collectors take
Up photography, full retirement
For penitent lawyers and congressmen.
- Jeremiah Webster (2006)
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“Yeats in a very early poem has a line ‘Words alone are certain good’, and if you look at the history of the major religions, the word has always been central. You begin with a word and you end with a word. Literature uses word in perhaps the most comprehensive way. The best in language and the worst in language are found in literature, and it’s the best that instructs you, that teaches you.”
Edwin Thumboo, in an interview with Bill Bunbury, Encounter: 14 December 2003 – “Beyond Good and Evil. ABC Radio National.
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