This poem really puts things in perspective. When you get to the heart of it, isn't this the choice all of us would make, vita brevis ars longa not withstanding? I echo other critters on the poem's honesty and power and eloquence. There is a delicate and subtle irony here in the contrast between immortal art and mortal humans, which is epitomized in the very notion of a Shakespearean sonnet proclaiming "Take Shakespeare. Leave my friend."
Awesome.
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