To Find One's Poet

Paul Valéry (a very fantastic French poet, essayist, philosopher and polymath) has this theory that every poem written has a person to match. He says:

A person has to be ''tuned'' you might say, like an instrument, to poetry. Each person has his own poetry, his own poet. And conversely, every poet seeks his own resonator. To find one's poet is to find--through another person--one's own resonance. 

It's an idea that makes us seem singular and it's something like soul mates, to think that there's a poem out there waiting for us that will hit just the right notes. I'm developing an affinity (which is one of my new favorite words, introduced to me a friend who I keep around specifically to make these kinds of introductions) for poetry. I go through different stages in writing, where I like to explore and experiment by only working in certain mediums for awhile. And so my current affinity is for reading/writing only poetry, and for researching mostly poets. My big (as in consisting of different essays from different trains of thought that I'm taking my time to write) writing project is on learning the French language through its poetry. I'll post all of the essays here when I'm finished with them.