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| FYI "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" is my all-time favorite love poem. |
It's the end
of National Poetry Month, and I think it's worth reading what some of the great
poets have said in order to help get inspired for our own writing. Because,
really, Baudelaire nailed it. All writing should aspire to be poetry.
Tight. Aware of the way consonants and vowels roll off the tongue. A composed
rhythm of sentences. A picture of life that makes us see the eternal truths in
life. So here we go... :)
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of
his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of
the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
W.B. Yeats
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
