Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 23:44:45 PST 2024

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Maybe it was my calling Him a jerk, that pissed him off the most. It might have been when I shouted his name "I hate you,Holy Ghost!" But whatever it was he got me good, he thinks he's really won. That's what I thought when I logged on and all my writings were gone. I did not cry I did not try, to understand why I was in such shit. Instead I grabbed a tiny flame and church with my name all over it.

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28-Sep-04/9:17 AM

If I made a mistake it was with the original posting. 'The best poets are the best critics' should have read 'the best poets must also be fine critics'. Sets are now irrelevant because it is entirely possible that there are simultaneously (good critics that can not write poetry) and (no good poets that are not good critics).

Kenneth Tynan said a critic (what he meant was a critic that was not a good poet) was someone who new the map but could not drive the car. My argument is simple. A poet that does not know what makes could poetry can not possibly 'arrive' at good poetry. As an educated young man one would have thought you would be the first to agree. I am presuming you have no problem with the bit about stupid people don't matter.

The PS question, well it did have effectively two negatives (anything other than) and (is bowl's).

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