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.
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I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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 can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
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