The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
A really good poem is full of music.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.