A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical of that one philological of a third rhetorical and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?