The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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.
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
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