Like abstract painting... abstract poetry extended the range over which incompetence would fail to declare itself.- Clive James, Poetry Notebook, 2006-2014 (in Literary Review December 2014/January 2015)
Showing posts with label Clive James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clive James. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
BS Detector
Labels:
art,
bullshit,
Clive James,
Literary Review,
poetry,
Quoted Matter
Monday, 27 January 2014
Perfectly bad militar-ism
Baudelaire, in Mon cœur mis à nu, warned us that journalists with a fondness for military metaphors were proving their un-warlike nature.- Clive James, in The Monthly
Labels:
Baudelaire,
Clive James,
metaphor,
Quoted Matter,
The Monthly,
The writer's life,
war
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