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Writing
poetry is a form which has many uses, helping us to develop ideas creatively in a range of areas. Poetry is such an essential form of writing for humanity.
Andrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
But I got the same painful pleasure out of writing prose that I did out of writing poetry—the pleasure of trying to put the right words in the right order. And I took away from my experience with poetry something else. I understood that the reason people write poems is the reason people write. They have something to say. ♦
Louis Menand • Can Poetry Change Your Life?
Frost describes his own process of making poetry in a very similar fashion—as a kind of homecoming to a lost part of himself. “For me,” he says, “the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.”