Showing posts with label Robert Frost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Frost. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Freedom

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

- Robert Frost

I played tennis without a net in Carpentaria, California. It was fun for about two minutes, but then it became a big waste of time. The challenge was to remain interested -- to keep at an activity that required no skill, lacked reward, and offered little more than pseudo exercise. Robert Frost compared writing free verse with playing tennis without a net, but the similarity is limited to a lack of confinement, not enjoyment, improvement, or time well spent.


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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Transgendered Words Plus Some

"I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none."

        - Robert Frost

The fashion today is to dress nouns as verbs, verbs as adjectives, adjectives as nouns, and so on. Right words do exist, but they are no longer gender-specific. "[O]ne word or none?" Today, its transgendered words plus some. If you can think it you can use it.


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