Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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.
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.