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"I" - R. Frost
"cannot" - C. Sandburg
"write" - A. Hitler
"a" - L. Cohen
"poem" - M. Gandhi
"that" - E. Dickenson
"has" - JD Salinger
"not" - E. Hemingway
"already" - J. Christ
"been" - A. Einstein
"written." - TS Eliot

This poem is stupid and not at all clever. I hate it.

I, on the other hand, love it. It, oh so cleverly, makes the excellent point, via the statement itself, that nothing can be written that has not already been written .

I, on the other hand, love it. It, oh so simply and cleverly, makes the excellent point, via the statement itself [already heard round regarding written art], that nothing can be written that has not already been written .

all has been said
by poets long dead
the giants roll in the graves
for sins of illiterate knaves

salut,
elazar

I'm certain Leonard would love his part . For one thing, he's the only one still living . I guess that's why he got trumped for the bigger words. Respect for the dead and all that jazz . I enjoy this little ditty immensely.

I believe JD Salinger is still alive as well. When he dies I think there is supposedly a lot of his writing that will be released that he never published.

Whoops, sorry, JD. I was thinking he was dead, too. Don't want to wish him to an earlier grave than time will bring on its own. Was Leonard's quote taken from "Bird On a Wire"?