Poetry Can Be

Verse

Music

A luxury

Discovering

A mug's game

Frosted fire

A creative act

Life distilled

Mostly hunches

An act of peace

Loosening words

Language in orbit

Talking on tiptoe

The scholar's art

Nothing but music

Setting words free

A break for freedom

A necessity of life

All nouns and verbs

A rebirth of wonder

Music in words

Metaphor and simile

An evasion of prose

An approach to life

A sort of homecoming

An orphan of silence

Painting that speaks

Prose in slow motion

The breath of beauty

The evidence of life

The harmony of words

Closely kin to music

The renewal of words

A perpetual beginning

The music of language

An approach to things

A search for syllables

Extraordinary language

The eloquence of verse

The memory of language

A life-cherishing force

An adventure in renewal

Prose bent out of shape

An attempt to understand

Truth dwelling in beauty

Typographical production

Painting lasting pictures

Where language is renewed

The mathematics of writing

What makes toenails twinkle

Words with musical emphasis

Uniting pleasure with truth

Language pared to essentials

An effort to find fulfillment

An expression of what we know

As precise a thing as geometry

Frontier ignoring, like a bird

What makes the invisible appear

Language which creates feelings

A reaching out toward expression

The morning dream of great minds

An investigation of what we know

The most elite form of literature

A reaching out forward expression

Everywhere, it just needs editing

Music written for the human voice

A way of sharing feelings and ideas

An approach to the truth of feeling

Ordinary language to the nth degree

Language trying to become experience

A way of life, then a way of writing

All that is worth remembering in life

The key to the hieroglyphics of nature

Perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns

Indispensable - if we only knew what for

The breath and finer spirit of knowledge

The connecting link between body and mind

The utterance of deep and heartfelt truth

A satisfying of the desire for resemblance

The rhythmical creation of beauty in words

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn

A quality of beauty and intensity of emotion

Not the thing said, but the way of saying it

A domestic art, most itself when most at home

A succession of questions which the poet poses

What happens when an anxiety meets a technique

A matter of life, not just a matter of language

The art of understanding what it is to be alive

The art of using language to transcend language

A language in which we explore our own amazement

A way of looking at the world for the first time

Language at its most distilled and most powerful

The art of saying what we mean but disguising it

The exquisite expression of exquisite impressions

The music of the soul, of great and feeling souls

The outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility

Language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Not a matter of feelings, but a matter of language

The only art we haven't learned to consume like soup

The least imposition on silence in a world of chatter

Very similar to music, only less notes and more words

Language surprised in the act of changing into meaning

Not a way of saying things, but a way of seeing things

That which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart

An ability to talk about things there is no language for

Plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them

When you make new things familiar and familiar things new

A response to the daily necessity of getting the world right

Born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought

The discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything

Doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colour

A deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary

The easiest art to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence

The most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

Employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination

Art within the grasp of everyone - a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready

Paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths

Communication through words of experiences that can be communicated in no other way

A tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes

A tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages

To flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world

Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm