Is he a poet, or a philosopher? I've been accused of both. I like to think that I'm both, the aggregate not really unusual. Surely, the serious poet is examining what it is to be a poet, and realizing that poetry, not doggerel or birthday greeting verse, involves looking not so much inside as outside, into the incomprehensible vast he or she inhabits and struggles to express. Let me add, not to express the puny being doing the composing,not, in effect, the narcissistic self-display which p...