How do we write a poem? Where does inspiration come from? What does it take to be a poet? Is being visited by the muses a torture or a bliss?To answer these questions, I chose two poems by authors whose personalities represent the true nature of poetry – melancholy and plurality. The French symbolist Charles Baudelaire compares poets with albatrosses, seabirds tortured by sailors. Fernando … Continue reading Being a poet: between agony and privilege