ext_3648 ([identity profile] rattlecatcher.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] seperis 2010-05-29 05:31 pm (UTC)

I'm only doing what John Keats did 190 years ago

... when he wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Okay, sure, I use a little more smut, but a lot of acclaimed artists have worked with the naughty over the years. But what I'm talking about is that no one's ever given me a reason to consider what I'm doing to be different from what Keats did, when he stared at a vase and started seriously looking at the figures and what was happening in their lives in that moment.

Keats was consciously someone else's creation, and asking his readers to connect with this original source while he connected it with the greater world outside the pretty pictures.

I'm not going to claim to be a Keats, but does that mean I shouldn't write? I know a lot of people who will never be a professional athlete that still like to go out and play.

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