There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality ...
Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?
I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.
