Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
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 when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.