Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face I like to say 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
