Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
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 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.
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.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.