What do you find the most difficult about
writing poetry?
Self doubt. An author can tinker
with a poem endlessly and the second guessing can become paralyzing. The
precision of the language and the constructs can over-ride the feel of the poem
at times. I can look at the same line and see three or four different ways to
re-phrase the line either through language or grammar. At some point, you just
have to let it go. There’s that famous quote by Oscar Wilde, “I was working on
a proof of one of my poems all morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I
put it back again.”
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