A quotation by Holland, Barbara

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we’re assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people’s poems is pointless since those aren’t our own inmost feelings.

Barbara Holland (1933-2010) American author

Wasn’t the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon’s Fond Memories, “Poetry” (1999)

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