Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Poetry is life distilled.
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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