A 30 October poem from Klaus Høeck's '1001 poems'

  hints tips and good ad

  vice to a young po

et ‘ ‘it sounds so beautiful’

  i said - ‘does lofty

  poetry but po

etry is only lofty

to the same extent as life

  is denigrated

  and debased’ - i said

‘poetry ought to be more

  like a turnip in

  its fat fertile soil’