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actually I was asked this same question on a forum once before, earlier this year, and I answered: my answer is schizophrenic. scientist: a specialised form of prose that uses imagery & phonoaesthetics to depict & filter the world. poet1: giving the world around us voices to project part of ourselves into the mute multitude. poet2: what I know instinctively I find useless to try to describe. poet3: what I know instinctively I find interesting to try to describe. KS 2008/5/20 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>: > *From Poetry Daily* - > > On Tuesday we (Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/) continue our series of > prose features with "What Is It Anyway," from *Quote Poet Unquote: > Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry*, edited by *Dennis O'Driscoll*, > just out from Copper Canyon Press: > > "Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley." > —*Charles Simic* > > "Poetry is energy, it is an energy-storing and an energy-releasing device." > —*Miroslav Holub* > > "Poetry is the eroticization of thought—psychic vitality." > —*Cal Bedient* > > "A poem... is the attire of feeling: the literary form where words seem > tailor-made for memory or desire." > —*Carol Ann Duffy* > > *From me:* > > Please - contribute your own! > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >