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She's the only one who knows what it is to burn

Created on 2001-10-10 20:06:31 (#366095), last updated 2008-09-16

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"A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy, it isn't. Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. why? because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people, but the moment you feel, you're nobody but yourself. to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. as for expressing nobody but yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't a poet can possibly imagine. why? because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. we, all of us, do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we are not poets. if, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed. and so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is; do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world-unless you are not only willing, but glad to feel and work and fight till you die. does this sound dismal? it isn't. it's the most wonderful life on earth. or so i feel...."

~ee cummings~




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