The Poetry, Not the Poet

Younger poets tend to try and demonstrate their ability by being deliberately obscure, but they unlearn this habit in time.

Good poets do not complicate their poetry. They make poetry feel the words mean what they usually do in everyday life and then move the words into a ...

Chinese literature is based on the Book of Songs, a collection of simple poems that have accrued much interpretation and commentary.

The Book of Songs enshrined poetry as the most important form of literature across East Asia.

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