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Re: Daily advice

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:34 pm
by Neville Briggs
OK Peely. That what happens when you're old, look at a thing several times and still can't see it. :roll: It's fixed.
Sorry folks I misread a typo.

Nah Bill, we're just..cool..man..cool. 8-)

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:33 pm
by Vic Jefferies
"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity."
Plato

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:37 am
by Neville Briggs
A poem is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalising vagueness. It finds its thought and succeeds or doesn't find it and comes to nothing.

Robert Frost

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:34 am
by Neville Briggs
Where there is no similarity, there is no rhyme. Where the similarity is too great, boredom sets in. Skilful rhyming involves finding a balance between identity and difference.

Alfred Corn

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:28 am
by Neville Briggs
Writing poetry is not a way of saying only what one already has the words for, but a way of saying what one didn't know one knew. This is true of everything about poetry, including meter and rhyme.

Marvin Bell

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:56 pm
by Neville Briggs
Women speak two languages, one of which is verbal.

W.Shakespeare.

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:53 pm
by Heather
Never! :D

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:46 pm
by Bob Pacey
I prefer their body language Nev ;) ;) ;) ;)


Bob

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:55 pm
by Neville Briggs
:shock:

Re: Daily advice

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:22 pm
by Bob Pacey
Joe Cavanagh my first boss had a sign above his desk.


Pick the right people, Train them well then get out of their road and let them do the job.