Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.