“Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.”
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Poetry is composing for the breath.
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
