The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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.
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