Keats asked that question.
He said he was the man,
An equal to the King, or the poorest beggar.
Between Plato and the Ape, he said.
I add, the Fool.
A king can say, can do, kingly things
A philosopher can say dreams of wondrous
thinking.
A reader of Poetry can make Fools thinkers
and thinkers Fools.
-FRITZ CRYTZER
From ** Keats, “Where’s The Poet?” Written 1818, Published 1848.