his friend is my friend, too!

Reading a transcript of Piper's biography of William Cowper, I came across this quotation:

It [recently] hit me again what a long-time friend poetry-writing has been to me.

I think the reason for this is that I live with an almost constant awareness of the breach between the low intensity of my own passion and the staggering realities of the universe around me, heaven, hell, creation, eternity, life, God. Everybody (whether they know it or not) tries to close this breach—between the weakness of our emotions and the wonder of the world. Some of us do it with poetry.