sentiment but not sentimentality
7th August 2017 | for Creatives | writing, poetry, reaching your audience, Denise Duhamel |
"When you write a love poem, the happy love poem, readers might be thinking 'screw you, I don't care.' When you write a love poem, there has to be the awareness of the fragility of life that you could lose this person at any moment, or this person could leave, or you could die. You have to have some shadow to prop up the poem; otherwise, it becomes sentimental, and you don't want sentimentality. You want sentiment but not sentimentality."
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