poetry, n.Definitions

Poetry is a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which (through analogy, associations and imagery) thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

Poetry is a disinterested use of words: it does not address a reader directly.

Poetry is (much like with the taste of the apple which lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself) such that the aesthetic act and thrill lies in the meeting of poem and reader in the act of reading.

Poetry is, unlike an editorial, unable to be translated, for one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin.