I've Tried To Become Someone

Poetry Does So Many Different Things, It's Difficult To Say Anything Definitive About Its Role, Which Of Course Varies From Culture To Culture. It Can Range From Being Stories Of The Tribe To The Private Lyric, To Being As W.h. Auden Said "the Clear Expression Of Mixed Feelings" To Nonsense Verse.

All Good Poems Are Victories Over Something.

Bring To Me, It Said, Continual Proof / You've Been Alive.

A Moment Of Something Between Acceptance And Resignation Of One's Smallness In The World.

Originality, Of Course, Is What Occurs When Something New Arises Out Of What's Already Been Done.