03-21-2024, 10:23 AM
Thanks everyone for their insights. I, too, get overwhelmed by different opinions and not being that confident in my own process find it hard to say no. Tiger, I was struck by your point of never deleting a first draft. There is something about that first draft that often contains the purest representation of the intent behind the piece. I guess my original question is centered around that phenomenon and the difficulty in editing a poem trying to make it better only to lose the ineffable heart of the poem. What's the saying, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good", or something to that effect?