A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
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.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.