The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
The journey is my home.
I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.