<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Letter To A Young Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Raman, so you want me to read your poem and state my opinion. <br>Well, you are fond of words and you are stacking them up in your poem.<br>That is a good thing; clearly you are a man who reads a lot.<br>So you want to be a poet, poetry is self indulgent’ it never starts a war <br>nor finished it. Should a poet write something that resonance with, <br>the sentiment of a nation, you can be sure it will be used by politicians <br>and interpreted for their dubious plans. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So why don’t you become an engineer or failing that, a cook. The world <br>doesn’t need, anymore academic poets who forever repeat what poets <br>of yore have said. For the people a poet is regarded as a figure of fun <br>who spends valuable time putting useless words together to make sense <br>of a world they don’t understand. As my father said when I published <br>my first poem: “How much did they pay you? ” So if my words have not <br>scared you off you’re a poet. All you need is intellectual honesty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oskar+Hansen">Oskar Hansen</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=473740" data-title="Letter To A Young Poet de Oskar Hansen" data-description="Dear Raman, so you want me to read your poem and state my opinion. Well, you are fond of words and you are stacking them up in your poem. That is a good thing; clearly you are a man who reads a lot. So you want to be a poet, poetry is self indulg..."></div> </div> </div>

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