Mary Karr on poetry

Just putting this here so that I can come back and think about it later.

"Which is how poetry works. You start in a scared place and get ziplined somewhere truer. The real purpose of poetry, W.H. Auden said, is disenchantment. Not to throw fairy dust in somebody’s eyes; it’s stripping away what’s false so you can see what’s true underneath."

(Syracuse University commencement speech, 2015)