One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.