This website publishes poetry collections for you to read.
Poetry is the other way of using language. Perhaps in some hypothetical beginning of things it was the only way of using language or simply was language tout court, prose being the derivative and younger rival. Both poetry and language are fashionably thought to have belonged to ritual in early agricultural societies; and poetry in particular, it has been claimed, arose at first in the form of magical spells recited to ensure a good harvest. Whatever the truth of this hypothesis, it blurs a useful distinction: by the time there begins to be a separate class of objects called poems, recognizable as such, these objects are no longer much regarded for their possible yam-growing properties, and such magic as they may be thought capable of has retired to do its business upon the human spirit and not directly upon the natural world outside.(Nemerov, H.)
What People Say
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
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