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It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. You can put lipstick on a pig...

• vectorpush 13y ago
  Quintessential HN.
• lsc 13y ago
  >It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing. The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.
• orbitur 13y ago
  So what's life like without the ability to acknowledge art?
• smtddr 13y ago
  >>Poetry is just a pointless distraction. I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".
• gbog 13y ago
  Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?
• 1631- 13y ago
  > It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. > You can put lipstick on a pig... Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.