Here’s a fun fact about Phil Collins: he saw Princess Diana cheat on Prince Charles. 

Just a btw for you, anytime anyone ends their conment the way you did, automatically dismissive and pretending to be so above it all, as if any other opinion is not nearly as enlightened as your own, it just kinda makes you look weak like you can’t handle debate or hearing other opinions. Not a good look.

I have a Ph.D in English, and it doesn’t make this so-called poetry any better. The sentiment behind it may be sweet, but the writing is nonsensical and empirically bad.

They both bought property on White Feminist Island and don’t check their mail very often.

Does that mean I have to have an art degree to like a painting? A fashion degree to like a design? A degree in film to critique a movie? If we’re talking about the particulars of the form or what have you then fine but to say you need an education in the arts to say you like something or not is ridiculous.

I was thinking: “you don’t think like 25% of commenters have a lit degree?”

Poetry is a writing skill. Some have a talent for it. Some work hard at it. Most good poets have a good bit of both.

You need a higher degree to consume art? That’s a pretty bold claim there, Cotton.

Haha your description made me think of “the many faces of Brad Pitt” - how his style so obviously changes to match each woman he’s involved with. It’s freaky, he’s done it with at least 4 actresses I can think of. Clearly he likes the “trappings of love”.

It’s terrible poetry but I think it’s really sweet.

I don’t necessarily always leap to cheating, but I do know that the gushiest, most outwardly loving couple on my Facebook feed has serious problems. The guy (it’s a straight couple) is one of my fiancé’s good friends and holy shit does he offload some crazy, sad stuff when they get together.

“If you want to critique lit get a degree.”

Reading this post is like hearing your roommates having really noisy sex. Enjoyable for the people directly involved, embarrassing and annoying for everyone else, and the generous thing to do is just pretend you didn’t hear it.

I have a degree in literature! Her writing sucks

Oh phew, you meant your girlfriend of your late teens, not your “late girlfriend.” OK! Mazel tov to you and your family!

That’s why the actually great love letters and poems are great. Because they’re rare, because it IS nearly impossible to describe without being totally nauseating.

You’re so right how dare we have opinions about publicly stated words. We should all go back to college for literature first.

I have a book of poetry by Nazim Hikmet - a Turkish poet that was popular back in the earlier 20th century. He posts a letter his wife wrote him. One of my favorite passages is her talking about mixing their cremated ashes and she says:

True Love: Sponsored by Welch’s Grape Juice — We’re the purpliest.

It’s definitely possible to write about the person you love in a beautiful way, but it’s few and far between (and correlates highly with being a professional writer).