<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post2768093351737755709..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3976258490041337364</id><published>2009-01-15T08:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T08:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let Them Alone      If God has been good enough to...</title><summary type='text'>Let Them Alone&lt;BR/&gt;   &lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;  If God has been good enough to give you a poet&lt;BR/&gt;Then listen to him. But for God&#39;s sake let him alone until he is&lt;BR/&gt;dead; &lt;BR/&gt;no prizes, no ceremony,&lt;BR/&gt;They kill the man. A poet is one who listens&lt;BR/&gt;To nature and his own heart; and if the noise of the world grows up &lt;BR/&gt;around him, and if he is tough enough,&lt;BR/&gt;He can shake off his enemies, but not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/3976258490041337364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/3976258490041337364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html?showComment=1232025720000#c3976258490041337364' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2768093351737755709' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2768093351737755709' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3000104636969769283</id><published>2009-01-15T08:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T08:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lloydmintern:Excuse me?I think what I mean to say,...</title><summary type='text'>lloydmintern:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Excuse me?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think what I mean to say, and did say, is that fame doesn&#39;t help writers.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It may be that certain kinds of criticism and polemics are inspired by conflict and the public spotlight.  But I believe that &quot;creative&quot; writing is a process best practiced in tranquillity.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Many writers who become famous as a result of their work undergo a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/3000104636969769283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/3000104636969769283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html?showComment=1232024460000#c3000104636969769283' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2768093351737755709' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2768093351737755709' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1276946291701981110</id><published>2009-01-14T21:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T21:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a sad day for me, as I&#39;m sure it is for ma...</title><summary type='text'>This is a sad day for me, as I&#39;m sure it is for many. I remember a year ago reading through a book of his criticism for my thesis on community sense in poetry. He tone was indeed modest, as Curtis described, and has stuck with me all the way.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/1276946291701981110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/1276946291701981110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html?showComment=1231986720000#c1276946291701981110' title=''/><author><name>Gregory Bem</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02554655407334513697</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-4nSvRAbwlo/SW6Mw-ZXxOI/AAAAAAAAAOk/RiaSH9gv-_A/S220/Picture+010.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2768093351737755709' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2768093351737755709' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-492436756"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6480609400112529545</id><published>2009-01-14T16:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T16:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An interesting task? What are you, a vulture?</title><summary type='text'>An interesting task? What are you, a vulture?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/6480609400112529545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/6480609400112529545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html?showComment=1231968120000#c6480609400112529545' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2768093351737755709' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2768093351737755709' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6504097935558255662</id><published>2009-01-14T11:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T11:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I remember reading that Snodgrass&#39;s winning of the...</title><summary type='text'>I remember reading that Snodgrass&#39;s winning of the NBA in 1960 for Heart&#39;s Needle seriously upset him, along the lines of the Salinger syndrome.  A retiring and modest man, it bothered him for years, and certainly affected his work.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How writers who achieve early fame handle it is a problem seldom addressed by critics.  I&#39;m of the opinion that its affects are almost entirely bad, even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/6504097935558255662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2768093351737755709/comments/default/6504097935558255662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html?showComment=1231950180000#c6504097935558255662' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/w.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2768093351737755709' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2768093351737755709' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2009"/></entry></feed>