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Article #827995Re: Two views of writing poetry
From: Coco DeSockmonke
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:11
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 20:11
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On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:01:46 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: > On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 2:42:42 PM UTC-4, 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 > There's a good Leonard Cohen quote that's similar to the point made here, which might be of interest. What point do you think George was trying to make?
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