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On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 6:42:42 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> "Philip Larkin would leave half-finished poems in a drawer for decades 
> until he found the right lines to complete them. Let’s reserve the word 
> 'poet' for writers who respect language enough to do things like that." 
> https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/bob-dylan-a-great-poet-a-great-delusion-more-like-it-20220502-p5ahrz.html 
> 
> "Dumb ass. Real poets can write a poem as easily as some of us think. 
> In other words, it doesn’t take fucking decades." 
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/i7lvIdnUvwU/m/PV9DS2-UAgAJ?hl=en
Larkin would do dozens of drafts of his poems, so he wasn't exactly abandoning them for decades.  He was after quality (in his opinion) and didn't want to settle.  Most of us know when our poem is done and ready to go, be it after a first or second draft or more, or postponed for a later look.

We knew a painter who couldn't decide when his painting was finished.