Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.