Punctuation Or Not

[BigRed]

I disagree that poetry is an extension of ourselves. Being everything else you said was dependent on that premise it all just disappeared.

That's fair enough, although I don't see how it could be anything but that because even if they aren't directly about ourselves or in some other way therapeutic, they are still how we perceive the world.

Nonetheless, I would perhaps amend my statement, then, to argue as a general rule (ha), that any rules when it comes to art seem weird. It's art, why try in any conceivable way to restrain it?

Poetry should do this or fiction should do this...feels yucky to me.