The greatest poets are the ones as much in touch with themselves as they are with the world around them. The ones who can richly dissect, romanticize, or portray the human experience on both an individualistic scale and that of our entire species. Leaning strictly to the individual risks their work being submerged in the mundane—a mirror of reality without art’s natural sense of exploration. Leaning the other way, …
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