Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
I read poetry to save time.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.