The Power of Poetry

I was so struck by the idea of him trying to place words to this still point, which is neither here nor there or from or towards. That's exactly why we have poetry because poems are not supposed to describe our experience. Their purpose is to evoke in us the experience that the poet is having. They realize their experience cannot be adequately squashed into these clumsy symbols,. And yet they they're so skillful with their use of words that their words have this evocative power and they don't describe the experience but they take us to the experience.