“I keep meeting poets who say something like, ‘Well, I’m trying to do something that is worthy and lasting and beyond my lifetime,’ and so on. I think that’s just frivolous. That’s something only society decides and I don’t see that it makes any difference anyway. But the process is the process of living centrally and paying attention to your own life. Surely that’s worth doing. If you don’t, who will? That’s what living is about, and you can be distracted from living by trying to create things that will last in the terminology and the mode of society that may or may not be harmonious to your life.”
William Stafford
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