Jordan nails it in this post. A snippet:
You have an experience, you want to be able to talk to someone about it. You don’t want that experience to be minimized, set aside, belittled.
Therefore, we go around minimizing and belittling other peoples’ experiences.
and:
The great freedom of poetry is that no one ever knows in advance what it will be. Naturally, poets respond by putting on mind-forg’d manacles and going on hunger strikes.
Go read the whole thing…
