Poets don’t drive cars.
Poets don’t go to the supermarket.
Poets don’t empty the garbage.
Poets aren’t on the PTA.
Poets, you know, they don’t go picket the Better Housing Bureau, or whatever. Poets don’t… poets don’t even speak on the telephone. Poets don’t even talk to anybody. Poets do a lot of listening and … and usually they know why they’re poets!
Poets live on the land. They behave in a gentlemanly way. And live by their own gentlemanly code.
And die broke. Or drown in lakes. Poets usually have very unhappy endings…
via Brain Pickings.
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