Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.