Breaking The Page Barrier

18th April 2008 with 2 Comments

Poet Robert Peake muses on breaking through the barriers that keep a poem less than 40 lines in length:
The stand-up comedian Billy Connolly is a master at delivering humor through seemingly endless digressions. When he finally comes back to the main topic, long since forgotten in the audience’s mind, he earns not only laughs but [...]

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We all have something to say, and we all use language, so people think that they themselves could do this. It's like the mother who says, looking at Picasso's paintings, "My child draws better than that.' People don't know how hard it is to write, what a struggle it is to know what you want to say and then to say what you mean. Jane Kenyon

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