"You should turn this into a song." "But it's not a song, it's a poem. What's wrong with it being a poem?" "Nothing's wrong with it being a poem, it's just that more people listen to songs." "Well maybe if people stopped expecting poems to be turned into songs, more people would read poems." "But you don't have to read a song, you just have to listen to it." "Don't you think it's pretty sad that people want all the work done for them? When you read a poem you find your own mu

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.” -- Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Every day I remind people that a poem is not a diary, t