The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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