[New-Poetry] why do I read poetry?

[Anny Ballardini]

Paz visited Frost when the poet was seventy. He lived another nineteen years. He kept reading poetry, his favorite form of understanding, as he said, and the best way of thinking. In an interview he remarked, 
"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in".


Lives of the Poets, Michael Schmidt, page 580 (randomly opened).

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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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