I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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