In Anne Sexton’s Pulitzer prize for poetry book, Transformations.she had Kurt Vonneegut to write the forward.
“I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did, and he thought awhile, and then he told me, “They extend the language.” I thought that was neat, but it didn’t make me grateful in my bones for poets. Language extenders I can take or leave alone. By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
