no much

A few lines of text, a glance at an artwork, several bars of music, is all it takes to determine if you’re in the presence of a real artist.

happy to meet you

There may be others who have loved poetry more deeply and read it more broadly than you, but they are few.

the many vs. the few

Spew words versus few words: the dialectic of contemporary poetry.

the many and the few

Many read the long demanding poem in part, few could aver to having read all.

a few good ones

He wouldn’t write a minor poem. Thus, he wrote very few poems.

but few are chosen

In our minds many poems make themselves known, but our hearts hold and carry forward a very few.