Painting versus poetry

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Painting vs. Poetry

Bill Knott1940 – 2014

Painting is a person placed
between the light and a
canvas so that their shadow
is cast on the canvas and
then the person signs their
name on it whereas poetry
is the shadow writing its
name upon the person.