` <br /> <br /> <br />For us there is an expression <br />Of significant emotions <br />Emotion is alive in poems <br />Not in the poet’s dark stained past. <br /> <br />Emotions are not personal, <br />Art is also not personal; <br />What he writes is not Life itself <br />But Life’s emotion translated. <br /> <br />Poetry is not seen or heard <br />But to be seen through & heard from; <br />It shows us a picture, tells a tale <br />Though that is not it in itself. <br /> <br />You who doubt of this being so <br />But have a mind to conceive thoughts <br />And sensibilities to feel <br />The disorder, the futility, <br /> <br />Meaninglessness and suffering, <br />The mysteries of existence – <br />You and only you will find peace: <br />In poems we are all reconciled. <br /> <br /> <br />`<br /><br />Frederick Kesner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0-mists-of-poetry/
