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Old Jun 29, 01
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Poetry

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
This may sound easy. It isn't.

A lot of people think or believe or know
they feel-but that's thinking or believing
or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is
feeling-not knowing or believing or
thinking.

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're 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.

- e. e. Cummings
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Old Jun 29, 01
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That's a really really cool poem!I quite fancy it!
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