"These days I ask myself again and more acutely the relation (if there is one?) between language forms and the wordless shapes of time. Perhaps there is no direct exchange. All I can be sure of is that I am able to possess them both within one body and one mind." --Clark Coolidge, "A Note on Bop"

This quote comes as close as anything I have read to explaining my own sense that poetry is fundamentally concerned with the relation between "sound forms cut in time" or "the articulation of sound forms in time" and time itself as lived experience.

I listen for a poet's "time feel."