<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lunch With a Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had lunch with a poet, just the other day.<br>A poet who has written fine and lofty verse, <br>Conveying his experiences, emotions and his ideas, in<br>Vivid, imaginative ways, condensed in simple language, <br>Choosing words for sound and power, <br>Rather than impressing readers with poetic adulterations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almost apologetically, he said he uses 'nickel words'<br>To write his inner thoughts. It was as if he were at fault, <br>As though he thought those simple sounds<br>Had lessened the intent of his poetic worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I emphasized how wrong he was, and tried<br>To make clear, a poet writes in sympathy with his reader, <br>Overleaping the barriers of understanding by the simplicity<br>Of his language, and of his words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To write with words of misty meaning does not make<br>A mystic. <br>To write with vulgar words does not lift up the poem<br>On wings of song, it only floats as high as the poet's<br>Commonality who, mistaking flatulence for inspiration, becomes<br>Enmeshed in a literary byproduct of the foulest of excretion and Smells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend failed to intellectually understand, <br>But spiritually Accepts, as his writings reveal, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That clarity of thought and mind is the poet's <br>Highest point of the poet's integrity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450602" data-title="Lunch With a Poet de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="I had lunch with a poet, just the other day. A poet who has written fine and lofty verse, Conveying his experiences, emotions and his ideas, in Vivid, imaginative ways, condensed in simple language, Choosing words for sound and power, Rather th..."></div> </div> </div>

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