Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.