A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.