A picture is a poem without words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.