The ego needs to be kept aside when writing. A true line is written without ego. Whenever a writer claims that they are 'part of the scene...' or 'we are poets...' the ego rears its phony fur and false roar.
One of the hardest things to do in poetry to write a good first line; in fact it is so hard, that the very thought itslf that the first line has to be good is the main reason for the existence of free verse, or the general bibble-babble so prevelent, because, well, if the first line doesn't have to be good, nothing else does either, so nice general prose or jumbly junk is considered to be poetry -- that way, the claim as to whether what is written is poetry or not is not up for argument. The lowest common denominator becomes the norm: I write, therefore I am a poet.
All day, all night, 24 hours a day, many a poet's hat is worn on the head, without a poetical thought.
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A man walks up to the 24 hr Poetry Center. The door is locked. He sees someone inside so knocks loudly on the glass.
''We're closed!'', the insider shouts.
''But the sign says 24hrs!'', says the poet.
''Well, yah, but not all in a row!''
(not original but still...)
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