It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry. These are the times that try men's souls. Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. Certum est, quia impossibile est. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.