it seems to me that the invitation of poetry is to bring your whole life to this moment, this moment is real, this moment is what we have, this momen… - Muriel Rukeyser

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it seems to me that the invitation of poetry is to bring your whole life to this moment, this moment is real, this moment is what we have, this moment in which we face each other, and if a poem is any damn good at all, it invites you to bring your whole life to that moment, and we are good poets inasmuch as we bring that invitation to you, and you are good readers inasmuch as you bring your whole life to the reading of the poem.