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Originally Posted by merrylander
Actually Leonard Cohen told a bunch of us at a Mense meeting that highly intelligent people really do not appreciate poetry.  |
Then there's hope for me yet. The closest I get to poetry is Bob Dylan.
I'll admit to having been bored to tears every time Jim Lehrer brought Robert Pinsky, the US Poet Laureate in the late 1990's, on his show to read something. There's just some sort of overbearing world-weariness thing going on whenever a poet recites a poem.
