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Originally Posted by N. Matheson
I'm sorry, but I think this mentality is entirely wrong. The most important thing anyone can have is legacy. And legacy cannot exist where there is no more room. Only one person will ever be remembered as THE definitive in any field. If you can't achieve that, then I can't even fathom how anyone could justify existing.
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Well, if you have your answer, then why are you here on a poetry board? I'm asking sincerely. You have decided that no one is better than Shakespeare, and therefore there's no point in writing -- and by logical extension, anyone who came after Shakespeare is inferior, and were all fools for even trying. If you want to cling to that impossibly limited worldview, you are more than welcome to do so. But it makes it rather hard to have any kind of enlightening discussion when one person just sits there stubbornly repeating dogma very few would agree with. Honestly, if this were a Turing test, I think you would have failed awhile ago, because holding to this idea of "there can be only one!" is strange, especially when so many of us have shown that there can be many greats among the greatest. It's weird and foreign to me that anyone can think otherwise, but whatever floats your boat!