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Despite being co-opted by hate-groups, the Confederate Flag, today, is not a symbol of racism but of a belief in individual liberty and Southern Pride.
- More than my stories, more than my poems, more, even, than that sermon I'm so proud of, I think this is the most valuable thing I can share with you.
- This IS a sermon.
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a few things that, out of sheer cussedness, we never tell Yankees about life this side of the Mason-Dixon.
- Imagery is one of poetry's most important elements. Use it well, and it sets the stage in your readers' minds.
- Don’t we all dream of it? Our verses, all collected in a nicely bound volume, on the shelves and catching the eyes of poetry fans everywhere…
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Thou should'st not employ such except where it be appropriate, lest it cause the reader to think thee not properly schooled!
- My philosophy of crit hasn't changed in the seventeen years I’ve been involved in actively teaching and work-shopping poetry.
- Poetry is at its best when about what we feel, and it's a rare individual whose feelings are never mixed.
- History was once handed down verbally in rhyme. The great epics of a pre-literate era…Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey among them…kept verbatim because rhyme is memora
- The best poetry...even rhyme&meter poetry...reads like normal speech, so nothing that's part of normal speech should be forbidden.
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- There are remarks made in response to good crits that tell a lot about the poet…and when you catch yourself saying them, you should take note, and catch up to y
- That's what I'm talking about right now...the fact that they aren't limitations: they're tools!
- Much has been made, lately, of the idea that strict iambic in a sonnet is rigid and essentially unworkable...that one can't hold true to that meter and still wr
- Sure, it's a poem. Anything the author calls a poem is a poem...but what makes it "poetry"?
- Meter is the word used in the language of poetry to describe the different ways in which we create and use rhythm.
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