A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
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.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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