The Poet Or The Reader Versus The Poem (2015-02-25)
So much misunderstanding about poetry is based on egotism. Good poets aren’t writing poems about themselves, and good readers aren’t reading poems as personal messages to them. A poem is created by the interaction of poet and reader, which creates something entirely new. To think otherwise is like expecting water to be like either hydrogen or oxygen.
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