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"Chandra P. Das" <vze1...@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<9qDtb.38649$bQ3....@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> yyyiii...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > "Chandra P. Das" <vze1...@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<D2xtb.38220$bQ3...@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> >
> >>yyyiii...@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>sometimes the feeling that
> >>>dennis doesn't have is the most precious memory. rest are just choice
> >>>of words, which may be updated whenever.
> >>
> >>Writing prose is putting words in their best order. Writing poetry is
> >>putting the best words in their best order.
> >>                   			---- Samuel Coleridge
> >>[paraphrased because I don't remember the exact quote]
> >>
> >>What you say: 'rest are just choice or words, which may be updated
> >>whenever,' is absurdly disrespectful to the craft of poetry. Do you wish
> >>to say that a poet should just jot down his/her feelings, emotions and
> >>memories and not worry so much about the choice of words? Fucking Hell,
> >>man, do you *ever* know what you're talking about? There isn't a good
> >>poet out there who hasn't sometimes spent as long as a few whole days in
> >>search of just two or three 'right' words. That's because even two or
> >>three 'wrong' words can destroy a poem.
> >>
> >
> > if you were a good poet you might need that a few whole days sitting
> > on your brain tumor and think about all the words you know how to
> > spell. that probably won't help you tho. if you were me, things get
> > easier. you just change the yingspeak around. everything will be fine.
>
> It all depends on what standards you set for yourself. Your goal is to
> write at a fourth grader's level by the time you reach your mid-forties.
> You don't have too much work left to get there.
>
the most illiterate troll on the usenet is laughing at the most
talented poet in the world!

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