These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. - Herbert Edward Read

The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem!

Such is our ideal – not another museum, another bleak exhibition gallery, another classical building in which insulated and classified specimens of a culture are displayed for instruction, but an adult play-centre, a workshop where work is a joy, a source of vitality and daring experiment. We may be mocked for our naive idealism, but at least it will not be possible to say that an expiring civilisation perished without a creative protest.

A short poem is often called a lyric, which originally meant a poem short enough to be set to music and sung for a moment's pleasure.