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It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity. I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make t
by bradknowles 7y ago
It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity.
I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0].
[0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)
- jshevek 7y agoLet's keep this in context. Are you saying that Cummings did or did not 'apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading' ? Edit: Or maybe you are saying that we should only presume motive of people who don't write great works?