A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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 thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.