A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”
“We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.”