Am I the Poet or the Dreamer?

Am I a dreamer?
Or am I the good poet?
Do I write for sect
Or creed or to change worlds?
Or, do I write lovely truths?

Am I a man who
Wishes to conquer, or am
I a man who needs
To understand Eternal 
Breaths and dark utterances?

Do I want peace, or
Do I wish to vex mankind
With a paradise?

2 thoughts on “Am I the Poet or the Dreamer?

    1. Yes, dad. Thanks for reading. I really enjoyed our discussion on it.

      The question is posited by Keats, where Moneta in The Fall of Hyperion asks him the question. It’s my favorite piece by him. He received it in a dream.

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