Nearer the sage than the siren,
on the roll of human archetypes,
stand the poets, whose job is to make
Sense of sensation; although they may
sing of themselves, too, we’re glad for that –
it adds a dash of simpatico.
Dave Read
Ars poetica
The meteoric rise in the academic sanctioning of poets since the 1970s has made "ars poetica" one of the things never far from my mind.