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Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. no matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." you drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." everything is poetry, so i think we come down to emotional information. and that's what poetry conveys.

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Poetry Is The Most Informative Of All

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. no matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." you drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." everything is poetry, so i think we come down to emotional information. and that's what poetry conveys.

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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. there are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. and then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. the world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: what's up with this glass? excuse me? excuse me? this is my glass? i don't think so. my glass was full! and it was a bigger glass! who's been pinching my beer?

Drink water, drink tea. i find that if i drink tea i can make myself think that it's something special, because you know how you just really want a glass of wine at the end of the day? so sometimes i can really want a glass of wine but talk myself into believing that tea is as nice, and that's one thing to do to be nice to your skin. actually, two things: you're not have the wine and you're drinking water. also just working out. all the things you do to be healthy in your life help your skin.

I would like a wine. the purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. a bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. i would like the good wine. and since the result is the same no matter which wine i drink, i'd like to pay the bad wine price.

A poet once said, "the whole universe is in a glass of wine." we will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... how vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! if our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! so let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. when we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. and somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. the wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and i felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.

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