04/30/09

A poet uses words not to explain something, and not to describe something, but to make something. Poet means “maker.” Poetry is not the language of objective explanation but the language of imagination. It makes an image of reality in such a way as to invite our participation in it. We do not have more information after we read a poem, we have more experience. It is not an examination of what happens, but an immersion in what happens. -Eugene H. Peterson