Rainer Maria Rilke gives good advice: <br />'... go into the depths in which your life takes rise <br />there you will find the answer to the question if you MUST create.' <br />You have received bad counsel <br />From the wolf pack that assembled to kill your spark. <br />I felt your poem's great beauty. <br />It took me with you to another place. <br />They killed you with their damned technique. <br />Use Rilke's dictum more than ever - Write! <br />The electronic book has changed it all. <br />Let consensus have the paper world. <br />Write and re-write until you know it says what you mean to say. <br /> <br />Critiqueing committtees do not write a poem, <br />Thank God Jefferson was a committee of one. <br />The power of their 'inalienable' process not denied.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/advice-to-a-poet-on-witness-of-his-attempted-murder/
