Mad Bad and Dangerous

That quote about Byron led to the following thoughts (2003):

It is good to keep the company of poets. It is hard to keep company without becoming mother, sister, caretaker, keeper. But how will women poets ever write unless they care for themselves and let the male poets do the same? Is it possible to be a poet and a caretaker? I don't know.

Every young woman should love her poet and leave him, or be left (or not), to recognize that the poet she is responsible for is the one inside her own head.