Every poem that works is like a metaphor of the whole mind writing, the solution of all the oppositions and imbalances going on at that time. (Ted Hughes)

Every poem that works is like a metaphor of the whole mind writing, the solution of all the oppositions and imbalances going on at that time.

Ted Hughes

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