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if all writing was precise there wouldn't be poetry.
The greatest poetry is extremely precise. Perhaps my understanding of the word "precise" differs from yours, but to me it means using exactly the right word for the right task at exactly the right moment, and not diluting it with unnecessary embellishment.
See if this definition doesn't fit:
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
"The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
"Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
About a hundred poems by Emily Dickinson
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