“One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.”
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
