in conversation with V. S. Naipaul
"In truth I seem to have felt mostly the joys of living; in remembering, in recording, thanks to the gift of the Muse, is the pain."
Robert Lowell, America's finest living poet, talks to the distinguished West Indian novelist V.S. Naipaul. Robert Lowell has become nationally famous in America, where his mixture of political involvement and private unhappiness seems to mirror exactly the times we live in.
"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone, peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heels of small war - until the end of time to police the earth a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime."
