If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’
A. R. Ammons
What is poetry? Do
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower … Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint. Elizabeth Smart