Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.