In the rare cases when they don’t rely on knee-jerk sentimentality, bad poets make you think: ‘these feelings are much stranger and stronger than what I feel, it must be what deep feelings are like and what I am supposed to feel…’ Good poets make you think: ‘this is exactly how I feel when I have no words to describe it…’ Brilliant poets make you think: ‘Huh? What? Why? Wow!’
