Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
It's not easy to define poetry.
Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.