Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.