Quantity VS Quality

How many of you write poetry for the quality rather then the quantity? I myself would rather write ten unbelieveably wonderful poems that ppl will love for all times then a Million that will easily be forgotten. This is were my immortallity excsists. With ppl remembering me. After I die, will my words remain?

yu have the right idea. But how do you define what is good and worth remembering?

Who can define that? You got to write from your heart... If you do it honestly and consistently, and get lucky to boot--then it might happen that you are remembered. It is O.K. to want to be remembered this way. But you cannot write poetry for this reason alone for it is not going to be any good.

People write because their nature says they must, whether it is poetry or prose. Altimately, there is no choice and no certainty. Good luck!

There's also a question of whether or not you can produce 10 everlasting poems without struggling through a million ones that will fade away. I feel that poetry is a talent that can be honed through experience, and many feel that you should write as much as possible in order to get better. Although quality is more important than quantity, getting to quality may produce quantity anyway.

Bottom Line is this: people are remembered for a ton of different reasons, not just because they were good. James Fenimore Cooper is a good example of that. So write whatever the hell you want to write and however much you want to write. It doesn't matter whether it is from teh heart or not. It doesn't matter if you even believe or agre with what you're writing. Anybody who tells you that makes good writers are feeding you bullshit. People aren't always remembered for being good. So write what you want and hope you are remembered.

Poetry at nowadays, freedom of writing is uncontrollable. I think there is no too serious rules/forms of how to write are in quality made more rememberable.

There might be thinking about 3 elements before to write better poetry:
1. Practice --> Humane;
2. Thought --> Approchable;
3. Exposure-->Teachable.
The purposes of writing a poetry based on the above said might help to produce good poems.
At nowadays, many poets who write for the educated readers, and in fact forget write for the children. I think write more the children might be a good ideal path to spread out ones art works. Perants and children are looking for little poems or stories for young kids. This is presumed more people to remember ones poetry later after the poets died.
- By sfiawong.

oh so true about wrting for children. Look at Shell Silverstein or J.K. Rowling (even thought not poetry). J.K. Rowling is so popular because all ages can read her books.

i write for the quality also

no, marketing shrewdness helped Rowling. she worked her butt off to get where she is.

That's a kind of quality...persay.

Quality is what counts. You should always strive to write with quality. I go for long periods sometimes without writing, because I don't have a worthy muse, at the time and because, also, I can't come up with enough quality epithets, with a high enough quality of material to build a really nice piece/poem. It's not only having the idea, the inspiration, but putting it all together, finding the proper words, phrases, methaohors, assonance, and such to express yourself with eloquence and artistry, to indite with eleglance and excellence. If you strive to be a poet, craftmen, and a good one, than you must also strive to write something worthwhile, either socially, politicaly, or artistically. You will not always hit those marks, but you have to strive to write to that standard... Quality should always be prized over quantity!!!

I have a document on my computer called "Poetry 101". In it are almost all the poems I've written (and have found all over) since I was 17. The poems I've put onto P&Q.com account for maybe 5%.

Some of them I am simply embarrassed by, and when I was in my mid-20s and my self-abuse was at it's drug-addled peak I destroyed maybe 50-60 poems I wrote between the age of 12 and 16.

Always quality over quantity, and I come here with the ones I'm proud of to let others be the judge. Not many do though. lol

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gud ans tina... btw... if the the quality of the poem has depth in it then the quantity can be compromised...