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Re: Two views of writing poetry

#828007
From: NancyGene
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 04:51
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On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:32:30 AM UTC, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 4:07:32 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 3:57:08 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote: 
> > > On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 3:51:20 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 
> > > > Well put, George. 
> > > We can now add "well put" to the ever-growing list of words and phrases Will Donkey refuses to understand. 
> > No, I understand it perfectly.
> Obviously not. 
> 
> George copy/pasted two quotes. 
Not only that, but he copied the quote that we found, and that we posted in another thread, and presented it as his own find.
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/-bFKGJLZdFc/m/s1b3V2taCQAJ

He also didn't correctly copy the link to ME's comment.  He posted the link to the thread but not to the post.  Perhaps ME can school him on how to do that.
> 
> He didn't *write/explain* anything, so your "well put" would not apply.
If anything, ME and our comments were "well put," and we did explain what we meant.

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