<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Letter To A Young Poet Revised</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Letter to a young Poet </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 pass time it doesn’t <br>change anything, no one reads it, other than cranky people. Should <br>a poet writes something nationalistic that resonance with, a nation’s <br>pride, like: “my country is the best in the world.” He will get a medal. </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 common man a poet is regarded as a figure of <br>fun who spends valuable time putting useless words together to make <br>sense of a world he doesn’t understand. As my father said, when my first <br>poem was published: “How much did they pay you? ” If my words have <br>not scared you off, you’re a poet. The only tool you’ll need is 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=473741" data-title="Letter To A Young Poet Revised de Oskar Hansen" data-description="Letter to a young Poet 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 po..."></div> </div> </div>

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