"Roddy invited comment on the "laziness and bad
manners" of poets who eschew
clarity. I'd say it was more a fault of ego than of
laziness and bad
manners."
Just like the laziness and bad manners and egotism of
painters who eschew naturalism, huh? Bloody lazy
Piccasso, Mondrian, Pollock,Matisse...Caravaggio, for
that matter...
Honestly, if you guys can't come into the
twenty-first
century at least you could try the door of the
twentieth. Either that or you'll end with
anthropologists reading your poems in your own
lifetime :)
Cheers
Scott Hamilton
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44 Roddy invited comment on the "laziness and bad
45 manners" of poets who eschew
46 clarity. I'd say it was more a fault of ego than of
47 laziness and bad
48 manners.
49
50 Here are two of mine on the subject...
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53 The miserly poet
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55 The poet who declaims his opinions
56 in obscurely wrought puzzles
57 leaves me cold.
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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