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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.