Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
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