Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
It's not easy to define poetry.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.