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If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
-Archibald MacLeish
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If The Art Of Poetry Is?the Art

Archibald MacLeish
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
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But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. yet the two words are far from being synonymous. by art i mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. by poetry i mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.
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There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. words are words. the only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. they've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. it's all the same. lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. they are interchangeable to me.
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Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. no matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." you drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." everything is poetry, so i think we come down to emotional information. and that's what poetry conveys.
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I don't know that i had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. i mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of american literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.
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That is why i think, in defiance of plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that cocteau wrote one day: i am a lie who always tells the truth. the only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.
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