We're all poets but we don't know it

I just saw a definition of poetry (thanks John). "Poetry is that which arrives at the intellect by way of the heart". R.S. Thomas. What a wonderful definition! But I would be the first to stand behind changing the first word from Poetry to convincing communication, or something similar. The way I see it, you always have to go by way of the heart if you are to reach other people with any message that you would like to have accepted, understood and remembered.

Simple as that.