“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.”
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.