It is a good thing that we should be reminded that a poem is not, like a teacher, a bridge between the truth and the ignorant reader. [. . .] It is a good thing that poets should be reminded that, in poetry, only what you really feel and care about, not what you think you ought to feel and care about, is of any importance. [. . .] -- W.H. Auden, from Foreword to Rosalie Moore’s The Grasshopper’s Man And Other Poems