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It's not easy to define poetry.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.