Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
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.
You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf.
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.