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Originally Posted by Glenn Wright
Also, when it comes to poetry, your heart is much more important than your brain. The brain is a useful tool for making calculated judgments, something that can be accomplished by sharing your writing with other people and using your heart to consider the wisdom of their observations. The heart is where you are alone with yourself and maybe God if you are a believer. That is where poems are born. It is ultimately the only thing that we will be judged by.
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Thanks for this reminder. You've struck at the heart of the art that is poetry. In a less direct way, I am trying to say the same thing in these "excerpts", all the while dousing it in self-doubt. Self-doubt its my antidote to arrogance : )
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