03-31-2014, 07:04 AM
Poets are elitist, just not profitable or important ones. If you want to be profitable open a porn site. What poets need to come to terms with is that poetry is unimportant today. In the world before electronics poetry could have some importance because it had little competitions and readers were willing to put time into it (well at least until the modernist killed it). Poets write because they have to, that doesn't mean there has to be an audience. Sure there are many people on poetry sites, but those are about vanity, which is not unlike the Kardashian effect, in that sycophants abound to support those of no talent, simply to be apart of something, so that they too can feel important (I know it's completely baffling as it defies the second law of thermodynamics, but there you go).
Ah poetry, you have my love, but not my affection.
Dale
Ah poetry, you have my love, but not my affection.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.