why great poets were lousy or non existent novelists and viceversa, great novelists were losy or non existing poets?

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>>24463799 (OP)
They're both disciplines that take total dedication to master.
They also require different temperaments.

>>24463816
Yes, there are exceptions, but it's a sound general rule.

>>24463799 (OP)
nabokov's poetry is comfy

This is only tangentially related to the thread's "topic", but whatever...

I find that I'm easily influenced by whatever I read (for better or worse),
so as something of an experiment I'm attempting to cultivate an aberrant prose style by reading nothing but poetry and plays. It's what I prefer reading anyway, so it isn't much of a sacrifice.
As such, I haven't read a single prose work all year, and have recently begun writing a healthy amount of my own prose.
I find myself writing with similar rhythmic considerations I would when writing verse (iambic, naturally; ie I will write "she looked me with..." rather than "she looked at me with..."), and favouring assonant sounds when choosing adjectives and verbs. Another thing I've noticed is the more focused use of simile (ala Homer, Milton).
The other big change to my style is that I've been writing very "sensually" -- giving much concern to the moment to moment physical sensations of the characters -- although that's not necessarily related to the poetry.
It still feels like pulling teeth, sometimes (writing prose, that is), but I think it's been an overall fruitful endeavour.

No, I will not post an excerpt -- because I am a coward (abject).

>>24465118
I'm the same way, likely most are, and my poetry has been heavily influenced by my favorite poets (more like individual poems), however now that I've reached that point I don't want to study poetry to influence my own. At times I've considered working through the works of poets one at a time to absorb their techniques. The problem is I dislike a good 85% of it.

Personally I love reading fiction more than anything, and certain authors make my language better when I read them, so for the time being at least I can just read how I like and still get all the inspiration I need to write poetry. If I get a yearning to read poetry then I will.

>>24466265
Yeah, I don't care much for a lot of short form poetry either desu. It's mainly epic and other forms of narrative poetry I enjoy.
I get a lot of them pleasure chemicals whenever I read a nice, neat, meaty chunk of iambic pentameter

>>24467196
Swinburne and Milton are two I liked in recent months

>>24463799 (OP)
>great novelists were losy or non existing poets?
Don't know if he was lousy because I never read it bu wasn't the only reason Bukowski wrote novels was because no one liked his poetry?

>>24468292
Other way round. He realised poetry was way less effort (at least the way he did it).