A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
