10-05-2013, 01:34 PM
No, you can't separate judgment from criticism -- but judgment is both positive and negative as well. Kritikos means to make judgments.
And I don't give a damn about poets themselves. I don't want to share personal details, become close to anyone, have anyone adore me or any other kind of interpersonal exchange on anything but the level of poetry itself. What I am concerned with is that people don't continue to think they're amazing and keep writing the same old dross; similarly, if there's potential to develop I hate to think of it being wasted. I am selfish. I write poems and I don't want the general populace to associate the masses of shite masquerading as poetry with what I do when I tell them that I'm a poet. For that reason, I don't tell many people that I write poems simply because the shite is too much to shovel through yet, but I'm working on it
And I don't give a damn about poets themselves. I don't want to share personal details, become close to anyone, have anyone adore me or any other kind of interpersonal exchange on anything but the level of poetry itself. What I am concerned with is that people don't continue to think they're amazing and keep writing the same old dross; similarly, if there's potential to develop I hate to think of it being wasted. I am selfish. I write poems and I don't want the general populace to associate the masses of shite masquerading as poetry with what I do when I tell them that I'm a poet. For that reason, I don't tell many people that I write poems simply because the shite is too much to shovel through yet, but I'm working on it
It could be worse