Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006594, Wed, 22 May 2002 16:14:50 -0700

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Politics and Poetry
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Came across this apposite remark in a recent _TLS_ review of Seamus
Heaney's _Finders Keepers_, a collection of his prose writings. 'Heaney
agrees with Joseph Brodsky that the only thing poetry and politics have
in common "are the letters P and O.'

I think VN would be in full agreement.