Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
Laughing behind my hand, I followed him out to his motorcycle. __ like to think I__ hot enough that I don__ need to flirt well._ __o you? Fortunately, I agree. In fact, this time when you walk in front of me and think I__ checking out your ass, it__l be true._ __ooper, you have such a way with words. A real poet._ __on__ I know it,_ he said, sliding on his bike.
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Laughing behind my hand, I followed him out to his motorcycle. __ like to think I__ hot enough that I don__ need to flirt well._ __o you? Fortunately, I agree. In fact, this time when you walk in front of me and think I__ checking out your ass, it__l be true._ __ooper, you have such a way with words. A real poet._ __on__ I know it,_ he said, sliding on his bike.
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it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.
A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.
Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!