Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
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.