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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Two views of writing poetry
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 15:20:27 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance 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
>
> Uncensored G.D.

Uncensored?