Re: Listener Responsible thread
Especially Margaret McIntyre's comments
Margaret:
Your comments--excellent as usual--remind me of some thoughts from the
poet Leo Connellan:
"The poet has to trust that the reader will come to the poem, leaving room
for imagination. All good writing is realized by us because of what the
writer has written for the reader to fill in...."
"Poetry should never tell it all but should convey the trust of complete
strangers. If the poem is created successfully, everyone will come to the
poem...and join the poem's success, help realize, fulfill the poem.
Poetry should leave to the imagination of others the chance to conceive
the poem and to totally "realize" it...."
"We must insist on imagination, risk, thinking you see something and going
for it, letting the poem make itself whatever it wants, free reign to the
imagination and heart or poetry loses a chance just sometimes to achieve
greatness. Most of the time we fail. We write more failures than
successes but just every once in a while we may succeed."
I have found these ideas most stimulating. I hope they work for you, too.
Cliff Briggie
Leadership Innovations
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also an inexhaustible source of competitive advantage.
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