"Ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds"

I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)

(via npr)

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    I feel that good lyrics are poetry set to music. Must be why a good song does it for me repeatedly. Can’t say I read the...

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    Having just read Paradise Lost, this is relevant.

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