The Responsibilities of a Poet They say what poets should do, like internet or television celebrities: attracting more attention than entertainment celebrities, or changing the voice of others into your own voice, and becoming someone else's mouthpiece. They say no one can understand poems by poets (It is said Li Shangyin had a similar experience. This type of dispute still rattles on). They say not many people read poetry. In the past, were there really a lot of people who read poetry? Was it a majority within the minority, or was it the remaining part within the overall majority? In reality, poetry is always searching for a few kindred spirits From Qu Yuan to Shakespeare from Rilke to Cavafy, the crystallization of words cast a sky that belonged to them. These lonely stars illuminate us. Poetry is the soul's murmuring, but it must also bear the risks of upholding justice. If a poet's responsibility forgets to create new possibilities in language,...