Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.