/lit/ - Literature

>>17618162
>putting real geniuses with Taleb, Skinner and Zizek

He would have been the English Schiller; he would have given 19th century England a proper poetic tradition, and finalised it.

But at least, we still have the poems of a young man.

>>16394784
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>>15428859
>implying self help literature ever helped

>start trying to write a poem
>wouldn't even be counted as any form poesy but it looks and feels like it counts
>start serious and mature, with philosophical inclinations "To Shoot the Dying Sun"
>ends up being about a brave fat drunk drinking himself to death on a sinking ship called "fat bottom bum"
>tfw this happens every time
>tfw can only write entertaining comical-folkish child tales
I've written over 30 poems and they always end up like this. They're not too bad either, be worth publishing if I briefly reorganised and constrained the prosody.

Why /lit/? What do I do? I hear so often about great writers trying their hand at different things before they found what they are good at, please don't tell me I'm good at comic-folk tales.

>>14904141
Does anyone here know what it feels like to have sex with a Beethoven quartet in the background?

I just want to know before I go.

>tfw lungs feel funny