Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.