That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.
Richard WilburHappy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.
Richard WilburI would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.
Richard Wilbur