The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
That's a wonderful change that's taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two...
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry...
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown...
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
