(It's been done. That makes it harder to do.) <br /> <br />Don't lock yourself in a room with a word called 'Poetry' - <br />It will breathe all the Oxygen. <br />Instead, recognize that the word is the room. <br />And that room is the world. <br /> <br />Don't try to hunt it with bow and spear-point - <br />It will only laugh at you, escaping <br />as the air escapes the clapping man. <br />Instead, laugh with it - <br />and escape with it also. <br /> <br />In your anger, don't even try to step on it - <br />it will disappear, but not for the reasons you thought. <br /> <br />Do not follow it, neither let it follow you. <br />Instead, be with it. <br />And it will be where it belongs.<br /><br />Kevin Carlson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ars-poetica-11/
