Why God Made Poets

WHY GOD MADE POETS I once asked God why He made poets. He said: I needed someone with a big mouth who'd communicate the ups and downs of life in an honest, simple, straightforward way; someone who'd tell the people what they've been through and what they're going to go through; someone who'd explain the unexplainable. An ordinary person forgets the ups when they're down; and never remembers the downs when they're up; but a poet holds on to every single crumby little detail and tells it all because he's a brooder. He's been there and done that a million times before and he isn't about to let anyone forget it. Janet Marie Bingham