Poetry stands or falls by its music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
The crown of literature is poetry.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.