No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
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