Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Poetry is life distilled.
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.
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.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
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