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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

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

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

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.