<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Poet Loses His Power For Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A POET LOSES HIS POWER FOR POETRY </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poet loses his power for poetry<br>He can put down words<br>But they no longer have poetry in them<br>Something of the feeling of what real poetry is <br>is gone.<br>He strives<br>He writes again and again<br>He puts words down in the forms and in the shapes his poems usually take <br>But he has no poetry in him <br>He has lost what he is<br>And all he can do <br>is strive again and again <br>Word after word <br>Silence after silence<br>To hear within himself again <br>A voice he does not have. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet is writing poetry<br>And it is not poetry <br>The poet is dead<br>And he is pretending to be alive<br>Is this a poem? <br>Is he a poet<br>Is he dead? <br>Is he alive?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=516232" data-title="A Poet Loses His Power For Poetry de Shalom Freedman" data-description="A POET LOSES HIS POWER FOR POETRY A poet loses his power for poetry He can put down words But they no longer have poetry in them Something of the feeling of what real poetry is is gone. He strives He writes again and again He puts words down in..."></div> </div> </div>

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