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If wine comes in at the mouth, and love comes in at the eye, poetry most certainly comes in at the ear.
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Metaphor is verbal lightening. The most scintillating move a poem can make. ~ Baron Wormser
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Air = atmosphere, the poem's spiritual center, its tone, its breath. Tone is the prime indicator of one's spirit, how one felt when writing the poem. It is a prayer, an utterance, a moan.