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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Two views of writing poetry
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:19:54 +0000
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Victor H. wrote:

> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>
>> George 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
>
>> The two views only appear to cancel one another out
>
> Nobody says they do...

Good point.