[ars_technician]

It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

You can put lipstick on a pig...

[lsc]

>It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

and a painting is just some oil with some impurities on a cotton backing.

The fact that words sometimes convey practical meaning does not preclude them from also being art.

[vectorpush]

Quintessential HN.

[1631-]

> It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

> You can put lipstick on a pig...

Was this comment the spoken word in disguise? It sounded a little poetic to me.

[orbitur]

So what's life like without the ability to acknowledge art?

[smtddr]

>>Poetry is just a pointless distraction.

I need to start a website called "The cold-hearted comments of HN".

[gbog]

Poetry, art is our only umbrella in the shitstorm that we call life, how can you say it is a pointless distraction?