Monday, January 13, 2003

With Tenure Comments

Rating: 4.0

If Ezra Pound were alive today
(and he is)
he'd be teaching
at a small college in the Pacific Northwest
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David Lehman
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Ratnakar Mandlik 07 February 2017

No man of genius rises by tenure. Hundred percent truth.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 07 February 2017

Somewhere it medicates a good result for the patient of fematic (derives from the word fame) and somewhere its absence shouts a cry unto death, cry but with silence....... Not bad in the age of rat-race indeed. Genius are many but skilled are few. Skilled does not bother but genius needs to penetrate this traders-civilization...... Enjoyed much. Thanks.

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Edward Kofi Louis 07 February 2017

Constipated! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Tom Allport 07 February 2017

a very good write of the importance of having free spirit.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 07 February 2017

Thanks for sharing this poem....

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Rajnish Manga 05 August 2016

The poem underlines the importance being independent, unbridled, selfless and a lover of beauty, virtue and goodness in life. Let nobody act as a bonded labor. Thank you, David. for tenure killeth the spirit Hamlet was not written with tenure, No man of genius rises by tenure

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