Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
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.
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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