What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
Poetry is as close to an answer that we can find in this world. It is not an answer of course, because there is no such thing, but a good poem (whatever that may be) can make us feel as if this may not be the case, and that’s a useful thing in a world continually pointing us in the opposite direction (a society I should say, as the world is just fine on its own and neither seeks nor needs any answers, certainly none that we can provide, it answered its own question a long time ago by simply being and it certainly does not require us). Writing in general is the only art form that can rather fully place us inside of another’s experience of the world and of life and that is a very precious thing, out of all forms of writing poetry is perhaps best at this.
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