With apologies (somewhat) to the poets:
1. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion” that helps you become a dried-up, humorless man. (Eliot)
2. “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words” about rotting corpses. (Poe)
3. Poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility,” made possible by your sister cooking, cleaning, and editing for you. (Wordsworth) Continue reading “18 Altered Thoughts on the 18th”
Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry 