something i posted somewhere else -- on meaning

[abu nuwas]

Make money from it? Piece of piss! Some people, like Heaney, may make more money than they need to to live, but that doess not mean they are not making enough from poetry alone, for a less luxurious life-style. Probably the same with the Poetry Society's new President (and I now learn, my mum's old chum) Roger McGough. To say nothing of Maya Angelou:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/2002/...u-full.htm