From the notebooks of poet Winfield Townley Scott:
"A man may write a poem with his fly blatantly open — but the blatancy must not be in the poem."
And: "Oh, it appears too that there are those who maintain that the typewriter influences — or should influence — the length of the poetic line. God knows in what way or why."
Source: "a dirty hand": The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott (Texas, 1969), p. 157.
Your rhymed 14-line fly is open
From the notebooks of poet Winfield Townley Scott:
"A man may write a poem with his fly blatantly open — but the blatancy must not be in the poem."
And: "Oh, it appears too that there are those who maintain that the typewriter influences — or should influence — the length of the poetic line. God knows in what way or why."
Source: "a dirty hand": The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott (Texas, 1969), p. 157.
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"I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you." — Ann Richards