“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.