Shitty Artists / Meaningful Art https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/665768411296645120/i-have-more-of-an-opinion-question-for-you-when
Girl from the North Country October 28, 2021 at 8:03 am You’ve written a lot of words, and they are all good and wise ones. In a certain way, you remind me of Auden’s great poem in memory of Yeats: “By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems” Once the work of art leaves its creator(s), it goes on to have a life, and meaning of its own.
ChrisR November 10, 2021 at 2:25 am Damn, every time I read something from Wil Wheaton he just gets better and better.
The person is not the work, and vice versa
You’ve written a lot of words, and they are all good and wise ones. In a certain way, you remind me of Auden’s great poem in memory of Yeats:
“By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems”
Once the work of art leaves its creator(s), it goes on to have a life, and meaning of its own.
Damn, every time I read something from Wil Wheaton he just gets better and better.