What has happened to him and others like him, the poet asks, who in their youth wanted to "set the world right"?

When a poet insouciantly asks, "And what does this matter?"

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens.

The poet asked him who he was, and he did not answer.

The poet asks the knight the nature of his grief.

The poet, still not understanding the metaphorical chess game, asks the black knight to finish the story and explain what was lost.

The poet asks, "Which of these four beings must I imitate?"

A poet will ask a scientist: 'I don't get that.

After perhaps the fourth time, the famed poet and biographer asked, "Are you selling my autograph?"

The poet asks his lover to meet him anywhere else but Tajmahal.