Writing something that I can put on a page and just look and that still has various depths and nuances and whatnot while still looking at it days later is hard And it's not a very marketable skill because people don't like reading shit that way
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I'm sorry but modern poetry makes no money and is mostly ignored by the general public for this reason It's just a fact, a freaking obvious fact, and maybe that's because everyone in the world except you is fucking stupid but hey it's true
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In fact I would say that it's so hard to try to be subversive and deep on the page when your words are taken in isolation like that that poetry of necessity goes in and out of fashions
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Every generation develops a new set of tricks to try to escape the cliches of the previous generation that now make everything the old masters wrote look mawkish and overwrought Today's "patient etherized upon a table" is tomorrow's "O little fire-folk sitting on the stair!"
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Anyway this is me telling you, as someone who has a smidge of education in "real writers" and "real literature" and all that shit, to please just shut the fuck up
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I'm not sure I'd say "What is grief but love persevering?" is a *perfect* line but it's a very good line It does exactly what it needs to do in that scene and it gives the actor exactly what he needs
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And whatever smarter, cooler, deeper line you're imagining in its place almost certainly *would not work* and would be objectively bad, by virtue of calling attention to the writer's jadedness with "cliches" and insecure desperation to seem "subversive"
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(The best line I have ever personally heard about grief is not this line It's a line from something you've never heard of and it's just someone saying "Well... maybe he doesn't *want* to be happy")
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(By itself, it's not a very interesting line at all and *of course* the concept it's describing is extremely simple and obvious But as the final emotional beat in a scene it rattled me really hard I flash back to it when looking at my own self-sabotage all the time)
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I think about this every time someone tries to include the Green Lantern oath in movies or television. The instant you say it out loud it's just the goofiest shit.
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When a blue Kelsey Grammer said, “Oh my stars and garters,” a bit of me was cheering, but a whole lot of me was embarrassed for him. That said, “Flame On!” is always cool.
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