The Idea of Success is a Cancer – high-quality A2 poetry art print, professionally produced and hand-signed in gold pen by Samuel Hurley. Each poster is printed on silk stock with a soft matt laminate, creating a rich, elegant finish suited for framing or collecting.
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Title — The Idea of Success is a Cancer
Size — A2 (420 mm × 594 mm)
Paper — Silk 200gsm
Signature — Hand signed in gold pen
Framing — Unframed — supplied carefully rolled in a protective cardboard tube
Full poem:
The idea of success is a cancer that all acts should lead to Hollywood and all art to the Louvre, as if the music doesn’t move the soul unless it’s prooved on the radio, as if the novelist has failed if she doesn’t make a seller of her page — how empty the shelf without you, how colourless the stage. Oh the quiet if you stopped, the silence if you stilled; how many cellos, or pencils or pounds of clay sit weeping in the cellar. Oh all of it is song, oh and all of it is art. Oh give me the town busker, oh give me my chalk Madonna, give me the old hall dancer still twirling in her ancient shoes, and let there always be a child in the night drawing comics in his quiet room. Oh the idea of success is cancer; it takes the music far too soon.
