Computers vs. Fountain Pens...........

Quentin Tarantino once said:

"You cannot write poetry on a computer."

Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? Why?

Is it more practical to use computers to enable ease of editing and easy organisation of a poem? Or does using a computer take away the sanctity of pure poetry?

How different would a poem be if it was written on paper, as opposed to a computer? What would be different about it?

Can the advantages that computers offer in writing poetry be considered unfair? Or is it just another handy tool?

Can one really feel the sights, sounds, and emotions that one writes in a poem if one types it up on a computer? Can one feel them without putting a pen on paper?

DISCUSS....

Quentin Tarantino is not a poet, as far as I know.

He may favour the habit of writing his film dialogue on beer mats and cafe tissues, but that does not mean that other people cannot write good poetry directly onto a computer.

I have done it, though usually when I write I'm out and about with only my little black book, but if I had a laptop with me, I might use that, I see no difference.

If anything for me, writing on computer is easier, it's faster for one thing, easier to edit and spellcheck.

I see no change in the way a person thinks, which is really where good and bad poetry comes from, that should be so effected by the method of actually putting the words down that would favour pens and pencils over computers.

I used to write all my poetry with pen and paper, but one day, I was sitting at the computer and became inspired. I went into wordpad and just started typing. Now, I find it hard to compose a poem anywhere but at my computer. I may have ideas written on bits of paper, but that's all... just ideas.

I tend to think it is because I type faster than I write. Therefore, I can keep up with my thoughts.
Doesn't that sound silly.

I'm with the above people on this. I type faster than I do write. If I try to write quickly, it's a jumbled mess of a foreign langauge when I try to reread it. The thoughts flow quite quickly when I write, so I usually type it out, for I can type faster than I can write because no matter how fast I type, the writing is never messy.
So, this guy that says it's not poetry written on a computer, never wrote any.
Poetry is poetry, wherever you write it.

xTheEcstasyofSuicidex