There are ways to catch the universe, to look for it, to give it an explanation. The artist with his work is what he tries to do: to collect everything that is outside him in order to understand it. The one who draws, the one who makes a sculpture, the photographer, the poet, all of them seek to eternalize the moment, things. Apparently, the poet has an advantage and that is that his material is the words, the ones he moulds, kneads, changes, in order to make them sound and shine. The poet with his poem tells the future, to those who read it, what the stones, the heavens, the stars were made of. A poem also speaks to God in the ear. I embrace you, @johnjgeddes.
I love that line, "A poem also speaks to God in the ear." The process of creation is very dear to God and when we participate in it by giving birth to art or to children, it fills us with wonder - it overwhelms us and is too much for us to comprehend