MichaelBishop comments on Rationalist Poetry Fans, Unite! - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Yvain 20 March 2009 01:58AM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 20 March 2009 03:44:17PM 1 point [-]

A couple of quotes on poetry:

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. ~André Gide

The Gide quote bothers me a little. I think cause and effect relationships are very important, so I'm concerned if he wants to exclude them from poetry.