<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Indefinable?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can’t define with certainty<br> what is or is not poetry<br>There are so many schools of thought<br> but I recall what I was taught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was young and still at school.<br>That there was but one basic rule.<br>Most everything you write is prose<br> but poetry you must compose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You choose your words selectively<br> so that they say efficiently <br>exactly what you want to say<br> but in a smooth and flowing way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In common with all forms of art<br>sheer inborn talent plays its part.<br>All artists need to learn the rules<br>provided by the different schools</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of thought which proliferate.<br>Study past masters of your art <br>so you learn to appreciate<br>artists who are worlds apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All poets write in their own way.<br> Free verse, free style or formally.<br>Some styles will last some fade away.<br>Why do you write primarily? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it that you wish to do? <br>What is it that you wish to share? <br> Your feelings or your point of view.<br>Are you afraid or do you dare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">admit that you don’t know it all.<br>That other folks know more than you<br>Pride always goes before fall<br>I think you’ll find that this is true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can of course choose to refuse<br> all helpful offers of advice<br>and disregard all other peoples views.<br>Though in the end you pay the price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can’t define with certainty<br> what is or is not poetry.<br>Though I can say with confidence<br>that poetry should make good sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3-Sep-07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414064" data-title="Indefinable? de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="I can’t define with certainty what is or is not poetry There are so many schools of thought but I recall what I was taught. When I was young and still at school. That there was but one basic rule. Most everything you write is prose but poetr..."></div> </div> </div>

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