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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
The essay makes it sound as if there's a trade-off you sometimes make, allowing yourself to be sloppy because you're compensating for the sloppiness by adding something else that more than makes up for it. But that's not an accurate way of putting it. We don't tolerate imperfection because there's a pay-off. If there's a pay-off, there's no imperfection.
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Not re-reading the piece, that wasn't something I took from it first round through. If he's saying such a thing, he's wrong. Your articulation of the relationship poets should take with craft is one I agree with 100%, though, and you said it much better than I could, particularly the last line.