Wislawa Szymborska <br /><br />Some-- <br />that means not all. <br />Not even the majority of all but the minority. <br />Not counting the schools, where one must, <br />and the poets themselves, there will be perhaps two in a thousand. <br />Like-- <br />but one also likes chicken noodle soup, <br />one likes compliments and the color blue, one likes an old scarf, <br />one likes to prove one's point, <br />one likes to pet a dog. <br /><br />Poetry-- <br />but what sort of thing is poetry? <br />More than one shaky answer <br />has been given to this question. <br />But I do not know and do not know and clutch on to it, <br />as to a saving bannister.
