[lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness
- From: "Steve Chilson" <stevechilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:04:20 +0100
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:26:51 -0700, "Lawrence Helm"
<lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> You must first of all make up your mind that there is a difference
> between
> poetry and prose.
The biggest difference between poetry and prose is that only poets
continue to get drunk and still write. Many a great novelist has been
felled by the drink, the work is too involved and lengthy - yet poets
can be opium addicts, alcoholics, junkies - prose writers want to create
a story, poets want to create a moment. One is easier to do drunk or
high than the other.
And then there's journalists...
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