This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

I'm a blue collar guy.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.