“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
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The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.