Imaginal conversation with a poet of the past...

[JohnAvg]

If you could meet and have a conversation with a poet of the past who would that be and what would like to talk about?

[chasestalling]

i'd ask wallace stevens "so what was it like to slug hemingway?"

[phoebelll25]

A silly question to Emily Dickinson : Are you mad sometimes at your monotonous daily rhetoric?

[quasimodo1]

I'll second chasestalling's concept; he didn't really do that.

[prendrelemick]

So, Homer, what are you working on at the moment?

[Pecksie]

"Hey, Percy B., I'm sure Mary wouldn't mind if you took me on a date!"

[prendrelemick]

So Mary, out on a date is he? How about a hug....

[mortalterror]

Petrarch wrote letters to his favorite authors. He considered their works as letters addressed to himself, and that they were engaged in a timeless correspondence with the ages. My favorite postscript of his was directed to Cicero:

Written in the land of the living, on the right bank of the river Adige, in Verona, a city of Transpadane Italy, on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of Quintilis (June 16), in the thirteen hundred and forty-fifth year from the birth of that God whom thou never knewest.
http://www.archive.org/stream/petrarchsletters00petruoft