03-21-2024, 01:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-21-2024, 09:40 AM by TranquillityBase.)
For sure.
I feel this, not so much in giving critique as in receiving it. It can be overwhelming. I guess I never considered it the other way around though.
However, I remember Mark Becker or Knot quoting to this to me:
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public. (Paul Valery) often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’
I feel this, not so much in giving critique as in receiving it. It can be overwhelming. I guess I never considered it the other way around though.
However, I remember Mark Becker or Knot quoting to this to me:
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public. (Paul Valery) often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’