vulgarian

    All but the vulgar like poetry. This is using vulgarity in the sense in which Iva Jewel Geary defines it, as being “in its essence the acceptance of life as low comedy, and the willingness to be entertained by it always, as such. Whereas poetry,” she says, “is the interpretation of life as serious drama: a play, in the main dignified and beautiful, or tragic.”

–Clarence Day

Perhaps this explains my fondness for less respected poets, such as Lewis Carroll?

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