<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Authors, Critics and Readers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some leave behind a hard-won name</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Others only fame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A few the sweat and tears of their passage</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Snatched from the rigours of their age</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet none the folly of the game</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fiction is licensed perjury</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The coward's excuse for character </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Courage revelation originality veracity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> All conspire to make for a writer</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All mirrors distort</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Reviewers like haïr-dressers retort</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And mistake the fall of water for the harp</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A mere critic can only carp</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> If what you see is repugnant</div><div style="margin:10px 0">close your ever envious eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you'll even see in darkness</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> and the reason for your blindness</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(© T. Wignesan, Paris - 2006. Pub. in T. Wignesan. Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: on Tamils, Tamil Literature and Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies,2006 & Allahabad: Cyberwit.net,2008.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523670" data-title="On Authors, Critics and Readers de T. Wignesan" data-description="Some leave behind a hard-won name Others only fame A few the sweat and tears of their passage Snatched from the rigours of their age Yet none the folly of the game Fiction is licensed perjury The coward's excuse for character Cour..."></div> </div> </div>

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