09-01-2012, 06:37 AM
I hate poets who are too vapid to take a stand and say something new, passionate and bold. Poetry that vacillates or qualifies itself is no better than the rhetoric spewed by politicians who have no brains or balls of their own.
Poetry-by-numbers, people who adhere to a formula that gets their work published in journals run by people-pleasing, imagination-free morons, poetry that shows nothing of the poet's personality -- the world would be a better place without all of these.
Shelley said that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" -- when did that become "nod and agree with the status quo, little sheep"?
Poetry-by-numbers, people who adhere to a formula that gets their work published in journals run by people-pleasing, imagination-free morons, poetry that shows nothing of the poet's personality -- the world would be a better place without all of these.
Shelley said that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" -- when did that become "nod and agree with the status quo, little sheep"?
It could be worse