Feeling Better

I came up with something the other day and now I need to decide what to do with it.

Anything we do in poetry requires moderation. Poetry is both an Art and a Science. It is an Art in that we need vision to see what we want to say. It is a Science in knowing how to say it.

It rather goes well with the following:

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." -David Bailey

and my comments to that:

The same thing goes for writing. What really hasn't already been said? It takes a lot of imagination to find new and improved ways of saying the same old thing. Think about it!

I need to examine the relationship between art and imagination. The way this has been outlined above, there seems to be a direct correlation.

One definition of art from Dictionary.com:

a. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
b. The study of these activities.
c. The product of these activities; human works of beauty considered as a group.

"The conscious production or arrangement" of words fits right in there with poetry. The production would follow art, however the arrangement may be more of a science.

To go just one step further, Dictionary.com gives the following definition of science:

Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.

So, the more we do, the more we know? The more we read, the more we experience.