The Poetry Of Youth

“We don’t actually want kids to be fully-fledged artists, stretching out language with all the weight of experience, often biting down on the bitter gall of that experience to give us something both astounding and unsettling. If a child were to write Lady Lazarus you’d faint. What we fall for in the verse of poets not yet in double digits is seldom the strength of their work but more often their ingenuous charm.”