~Fitz
It is also too easy to think ‘this is what poetry is,’ or ‘this is the kind of poetry I like,’ and then stubbornly cling to that notion for the rest of your life. To you, all I can say is here is an opportunity to transform and add a preciousness to every moment in your life--to see the world as a sea of meaning in unending waves of metaphor.
Poetry is the seed, the flower, the soil, and the sun. Poetry is a window into the soul of humanity across all cultures and all sense of time. Poetry is that punk kid in the corner of the room who blows us all away with the words cast about with reckless beauty.
Poetry is work, and if you don’t, poetry won’t.
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O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting
fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked
thee
,has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy
beauty .how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover
thou answerest
them only with
spring)
e.e. cummings