Re: [New-Poetry] poetry’s dying light

[Anny Ballardini]

I recently talked about this with a poet friend. He literally said that finally at a certain age he realized that you could be healthy and a poet, unlike the "European stereotype" of the sick suffering artist. 
I think it is easier to say than to do. If you wish to write you have to read and the quality and quantity of books is by now impressive. I anyhow find this list quite "healthy" both in spirit and in attitude, cheers!
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  Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:50 AM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] poetry’s dying light


  http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/columns/2007/12/14/i-wondered-only-at-poetry-s-dying-light-64375-20248128/
  I wondered only at poetry’s dying light
  Dec 14 2007 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Daily Post

  There is the advice that youngsters don’t have to suffer to be a poet, adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  Back in 1927, PG Wodehouse warned young budding versifiers that it was no good going around thinking things pretty or they’d never make a modern poet, instead: “Be poignant man, be poignant.”

  It was also Lewis Carroll who wrote in Through the Looking Glass: “I can repeat poetry as well as other folk if it comes to that –” “Oh, it needn’t come to that!” Alice hastily said.


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