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Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind?

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A heart is to a fire as a mind is to oxygen. A fire can entrance people with its beauty and intensity, but without oxygen, a fire could not exist. Oxygen is invisible, and its easy to miss its importance to the fire until it is gone. Conversely, oxygen can exist without a fire, and may help to create another fire.

Without the mind there is nothing. Our mind interprets and creates our reality. There is no objective reality, but rather the bias in which we perceive things. A mind is responsible for placing value on events and determining their relationship to us. We would not be able to feel emotions such as love, anger, or depression, without being able to attribute these events with their meaning.

Our mind is responsible for our ability to use language and words. What is easy to forget is that a mind has two parts. There is a logical, egotistical, part which helps people identify circumstances in relationship to themselves. This part is also in charge of using logic to solve problems, and understanding words and their meaning. There is another part of the mind which constitutes creativity. This part aids with creating thoughts, ideas, music, art, and poetry.

A heart is important for creating poetry. In terms of this article topic, a heart is considered to be where emotions are derived from. Emotions are important for creating poetry that has feeling, and can portray their meaning. But, without a mind, these feelings of intense emotion would stay simply feelings. There would be no way to convey them, no way to convert these feelings into words.

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