Poetry

"You often imagine poetry, and perhaps all art, to be a series of things (words, marks, noises, customs) some people don't completely get. But then how are you to explain that most call it wonerful, and that thay use words such as 'foreign' as compliments? Why would anyone call their lack of understanding wonderful? If you don't get a joke, you don't call it wonderful."

Miguel Tamen, What Art is Like, In constant reference to the Alice books