I've got a Completely Unfounded Hypothesis that the progression of literature (and especially poetry) from Older to Newer generally constitutes the saying of fewer things and the using of more words to say it. I tend to get annoyed by the hither extreme... I've been trying to read more modern poetry, and am on several poem-a-day type things, but it's gotten so if Nothing Happens in the first three or four lines, I go ahead and delete it.
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