A Waste of Time

29th April 2008 with 3 Comments

There’s a coffee bar next to the University library and during the summer I wander up there from time to time. They have benches and tables outside, close to the bridge and you can look over into the road and watch the students come and go. The coffee’s not the best because they use boiling [...]

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I am afraid when I sit down to write. Sometimes the sweat runs out of me. If you work regularly every day, as I try to do, the fear subsides. But it is never far away. Self expression is no reason for writing. The task is to make a work of art and, in so doing, to say something. Pity for the poets who have no subject save themselves. Christopher Logue

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