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Taka Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Sensible

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. An ambitious project—but sensible, I think. And it seems to me that contemporary American poetry is afflicted by modesty of ambition—a modesty, alas, genuine ... if sometimes accompanied by vast pretense.

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How would you interpret the 'sensible' above?
  

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having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.

— Mister Micawber

  • having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
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having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
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Mister Micawberhaving, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment: a sensible young woman.
The author goes on to say this:

We never know the value of our own work, and everything reasonable leads us to doubt it: for we can be certain that few contemporaries will be read in a hundred years. To desire to write poems that endure—we undertake such
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TakaEven though in all likelihood we will fail and despite the possibility that we will never know our success, can it really be 'sound judgement' to try to be as great as the best?
Of course. That's what I do.
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