A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
We recognise in the finished art which is the result of these conditions...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body the soul is on its knees.