Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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