However that may be, we have the present fact of poetry as one of the arts, to be accounted for along with music and the visual arts. Poets and others have attempted to describe what poetry is for them, what the process is by which poems are produced. The labyrinthine communings of words. Above everything else, poetry is words, and words, above everything else, are, in poetry, sounds. In poetry,the word seems to operate as a unity of all its powers.
Poetry is both perception and the thing perceived.
Poetry like science is the process of discovering. The structure of poetry is an exact presentation of the nature of human perception. There is the general power of words in poetry or otherwise. Poetry calls upon the full content, the total complex, of each word. A poem is a structure of words which persists.