"If a picture can paint a thousand words, I paint mine with poetry." - N. Afable

Pathos Qua Nous - Feeling Insofar As Mind: Charles Simic on Writing Poetry →

pathosquanous:

A few things to keep in mind while sitting down to write a poem:

  1. Don’t tell the readers what they already know about life.
  2. Don’t assume you’re the only one in the world who suffers.
  3. Some of the greatest poems in the language are sonnets and poems not many lines longer than that, so don’t…