Which is more important?

[Truerenigma]

I suppose I'll join in. I read and write poetry because I'm interested in language, in words—the thing that separates us from the other animals—not because I want to hear about other peoples lives, or ramble on about my own. However, that doesn't mean that we should sell our life experiences short. When I read, hear, or see something that can be articulated in a way that speaks to me as a human being, I immediately develop a poetic interest. For me though, poetry is not a wide angle lens, it sharpens these moments. Prose would be the high-beams that light the entire road at once, poetry is a single point of light that examines every inch of that pavement one granule at a time, and then reassembles it into a work of art, but not before pointing itself at the stars and remembering that there are other lights out there too.