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    Is Beauty the Function of Poetry?

    Freedom only comes with truth.
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    Is Beauty the Function of Poetry?

    The base definition of poetry is to create. If one poet, Poe as the example, defines poetry as an aim to beauty then that's what poetry is to that poet.
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    Forgive

    Reads like a poem.
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    Forgive

    Insightful
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    Contemporary poets

    Anyone know of any decent contemporary poets that have collections worth buying?
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    What are you working on?

    Maybe a dystopian setting where music is outlawed.
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    Iceberg theory

    Point is don't knock someone who has done more in one lifetime than you could do in a thousand.
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    Iceberg theory

    What's your point? They exist in yours. You're no Shakespeare.
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    Iceberg theory

    And yet he won the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer prize for fiction.
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    Iceberg theory

    That's the theory. It really all boils down to preference. Who's to say if implication isn't a form of statement.
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    Evolution of style

    Sometimes a detailed critique isn't necessary. I'll see where it'll lead.
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    Evolution of style

    For real? It's not too verbose?
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    Evolution of style

    The title is called Anomaly. Best way I can describe it is just show what I've got so far. It's meant to go back and forth from two different perspectives. One from a mortal outlook the other an eternal. I just am at a loss for plot. Its essentially prose poetry. ____ Tired broke soul lost in...
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    Evolution of style

    Well the thing about it is that's it's a highly abstract and experimental idea.. Have you ever played high light drifter? The video game.
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    Evolution of style

    My dad was a painter. He worked in the oil field for years but back when he did painting. Painted some pretty remarkable stuff in my opinion. I used to draw when I was smaller. Id get coloring books and just draw the pictures. Late teens I dabbled some in drawing but my passions always been...
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