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Jasper Loy

1:53 AM

@CowperKettle I am bad at writing poems.

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CowperKettle

4:23 AM

Anne Dieu-le-Veut

Anne Dieu-Le-Veut also called Marie-Anne or Marianne (28 August 1661 – 11 January 1710) was a French pirate. Alongside Jacquotte Delahaye, she was one of very few female buccaneers. == Background == Anne was originally from the province of Brittany in France.She was possibly deported to French Tortuga as a criminal. She reportedly arrived to Tortuga during the reign of Bertrand d'Ogeron de la Bouëre, who was governor of the island in 1665-1668 and 1669-1675. In 1684, she married buccaneer Pierre Lelong, who was killed in a fight 15 July 1690. With him, she had one child, Marie Marguerite Yvonne...

> Anne challenged de Graff to a duel to avenge the death of her late spouse. While Laurens drew his sword, Anne drew her gun, after which Laurens succumbed by saying he would not fight a female. He then proposed to her in admiration of her courage. Anne and Laurens de Graaf married 28 July 1693.

@JasperLoy You could fix that.

Memorize 20 poems, then write 20 poems yourself, and you'll be better at this

It's no different from programming, cooking meals or hauling heavy loads

The problem is that poems by Shakespeare or Millay are always before one's eyes, so all people compare themselves with Millay and say "I cannot write poems". It's like comparing yourself with Schwarzenegger and concluding "I cannot do physical exercise".

You mustn't compare yourself with the 0.0000001% of geniuses ))))

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CowperKettle

5:55 AM