a point arose about this is not poetry

[Apophrades]

Ok, I guess I know now what you mean by poet. I'm just saying a 'poet', simply as someone who will produce more poems, is different from the poem in that, although a poem can be rewritten, has power to influence other poets, has its own flaws, it cannot write itself. And, whether you'd like to admit this, you are all concerned with (the act of) writing, which is a function of the poet not the poem, and I think I've seen comments from all of you that would suggest this.