Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.