Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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 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.
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