In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

It's an escape from the everyday. It's also a way to connect with society.

We can disagree on the laws that are passed, and we often do. But the foundation of our society is that once a law is passed that we agree to obey it. We do not get to obey the laws that we like and disobey the laws that we don't like,

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet