Do you have someone to proof read your shit? Who is he/her? You

>>9042086
I don't trust the real me to anyone I know because I don't respect anyone I know enough to do so or want to do so

No, I take Rilke's advice.

I let friends proof-read stuff that I write for thenhell of it, but for stuff where I pour myself out, I agree with >>9042094

>>9042096
What'd he have to say?

>>9042086
Do you even know what proofreading is? It's just reading something to check for typos or grammatical errors. There's no opinion involved.

>>9042185
>" Your letter arrived just a few days ago. I want to thank you for the great confidence you have placed in me. That is all I can do. I cannot discuss your verses; for any attempt at criticism would be foreign to me. Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."

>" You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself."

http://www.carrothers.com/rilke1.htm

>>9042403
I dont agree. Tons of writers would benefit from people giving solid critique to them.

However im gonna send that to the next friend who sends me a shitty poem to avoid making her feel bad.

>>9042403
probably simply hated most literary criticism and didn't want to waste Kappus' time with a facile reading of highly subjective material.

>>9042403
That is one complicated way to avoid telling someone they suck