(Tulips, wallpaper design by William Morris, 1834-
1896, English textile designer, artist, and writer)
Is the poet right?
SOME LIKE POETRY
Some –
not all, that is.
Not even the majority of all, but the minority.
Not counting school, where one must,
or the poets themselves,
there’d be maybe two such people in a thousand.
Like –
but one also likes chicken-noodle soup,
one likes compliments and the color blue,
one likes an old scarf,
one likes to prove one’s point,
one likes to pet a dog.
Poetry –
but what sort of thing is poetry?
Many a shaky answer
has been given to this question.
But I do not know and do not know and hold on to it,
as to a saving banister.
~ Wislawa Szymborska, born 1923, Polish poet
what does it mean
ReplyDeletewhen the only thing you write
that gives you pleasure
is poetry?
I'm only guessing here, Charles, but I think that the poet is suggesting that it's a good start, possibly leading you to like many other things.
ReplyDeleteMaria