You, Martin, are, as always, exceptional to the rule.
But I wouldn't call you a dabbler--you're a
renaissance man.
Candice
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> >Behalf Of MJ Walker
> >Sent: 10 April 2007 20:08
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
> >
> >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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> 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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