Wednesday, September 5, 2007

From Goethe On Boldness (For Poets And Others Comments

Rating: 3.2

How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart,
how many splendid plans and fine ideas
have foundered, lost their glorious craft and art
through hesitancy born of baseless fears?
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Michael Shepherd
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Mary X 27 September 2007

Still very unsure. Plus, I like Goethe's ideas on colour, but your poem doesn't talk about his ideas on colour... It'd be a LOT cooler without the letters of the alphabet making up that supposedly perfect syntax, which is, in my eyes: Boring.

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Alison Cassidy 16 September 2007

Michael this is superb - your sonnet form is perfect, your content edifying and filled with truth. It's always so satisfying to read your work. Satisfying and humbling too. love Allie xxxx

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Ted Sheridan 05 September 2007

Great poem there my friend.

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