I am proud always to have been a dabbler - in life, in music, in poetry,
in ballet (ah! who remembers my fluted demi-piranhas in
Schmidt-Cremoni's *Dragonballs*) & cooking (I cooked several people's
geese but they hardly noticed), not to mention self-abuse of several
kinds - et j'en oublie.
mj
MC Ward wrote:
>Hi Patrick and Laura,
>
>I think of a poetry "pro" as someone who writes
>seriously as a vocation, while an amateur is a dabbler
>in poetry. I have yet to see any dabblers on this
>list.
>
>Candice
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>--- Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>>Well here in the Uk a pro is some-one who sells
>>themselves
>>I would def like to reassure every body that I am
>>not a poetry pro though
>>-perish the thought -you know what they are like!
>>I love this site so many storms in so many teacups
>>such dramas it has given
>>me a new lease of life as I don't get out so much
>>Cheers to all
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>Behalf Of Laura Heidy
>>Sent: 10 April 2007 01:08
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
>>
>>What makes a person a "pro"?
>>
>>Lo
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A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well as of husbandrie, and not goe to plough: or of witches, and be none: or of holinesse, and be flat prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.
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