>I think it is unfair of you to assume his motive, and inappropriate to use the idiom normally used to impugn one's character.

The post I replied to basically said that asking for capitalization makes you stickler to pointless rules who won't get far in life. I merely replied in kind to the tone of that post which probably isn't exactly nice of me but I would say it is fair.

Poetry is much different than prose.

I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive.

Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his prose as well.

Edit: Maybe you meant: since Cummings wrote a lot of poetry, he is a special case and therefore can be forgiven for disregarding capitalization norms in his prose?

It's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity.

I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0].

[0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)

Let's keep this in context. Are you saying that Cummings did or did not 'apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading' ?

Edit: Or maybe you are saying that we should only presume motive of people who don't write great works?