''Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.''

-- Robert Frost

*   Jim Morrison said
 

''If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.''

In cheer reality, we learn more by reading and citing poetry1

''Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent''

-- Victor Hugo   

Bob Dylan:

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman