An Intelligent Mind is a Clean Mind
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. ~ Edgar Wallace Writers whose work deserves the most respecthave lofty minds, the kind that never slideinto the gutter,...
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Rose,I'm so pleased you have struck a blow for philosophical purity, quite clearly every one of your luminaries are erect and up-standing geniuses.Alan
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Thank you Mr. Wickes. Indeed virtue is the common thread between these men, who might otherwise be considered strange bedfellows.Mr. McClure, Thank you for commenting...though I fear you have, like...
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Rose, your sonnet is a delight, and I agree absolutely. The trouble with the World Today is that everything we see, everything we read, or hear, alludes to sex. It's refreshing to find that someone is...
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Rose...'Tis sheer delight to say the least, this bit of tongue in cheek, a feastthat feeds the famished feministwith pointedness she can't resist. ******************"To have great poetry there must be...
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Ms. Jude, I agree about the redundancy, and will try to figure out a way to get rid of it. I'm gratified to know you think the way I do about the World Today; and I assume that like me, you met your...
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Rose--This is my one good epigram. Use it sparingly. "Let it be said a man erect / is never politically correct"heartsong--I love that Whitman quote. It makes me think of that other great quote, from...
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Rosa!I found your technique of using one long sentence to serve as several lines of the poem to be interesting.
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Yes, this technique -- extending the sentence over the ends of the lines -- is called enjambment. I like how, in this poem, the sentences stretch exactly to the end of where the quatrains break. Quite...
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Fun one, Ms. Rugosa. Would oral passion be too obvious? I'm sure you could fix the resulting bump easily -- or do the fashonable thing and leave it in. (Speaking metrically, of course.)Nada
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Mr. House, you're a genius. I've made your suggested change above. Thank you.Hepcat, Mr. Alexander is right, I enjoy seeing my work extended to the breaking point and then thoroughly enjambed.Mary,...
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Rosa, I am puzzled by the title, which states a premise that is unfounded by experience. Great minds are not necessarily clean at all. Your examples are contrary to your thesis.You state that...
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Rosa, this induced a good laugh, thanks for that.I wonder if the first word might better be something broader than 'writers.' The mention of greeks after all brought to mind vase paintings, and...
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Rose--"Your examples are contrary to your thesis."Hee hee hee. -- Mike
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It's hard to say which earns the bigger laugh --the sonnet or astutely drawn critique.Let's put 'em in a bowl, divide by half,and stir till thick to plug the mental leak.-M.
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I wish the hecklers in the peanut gallery would mind their own business instead of taking cheap shots. They should spend more time perfecting their own poetry than indulging in sophomoric invective....
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Raynham Hall,I'm sorry if anyone directed any invective at you. If you're referring to my silly response to what you said about inversions in your poem's thread, I sincerely apologize. I was a little...
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Oh Rosa, what a mind! I have a mind to have it out with you, but won't. I did enjoy this! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ! Clever girl.
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