Amos:

Thank you- I take that as a serious compliment.

However: "Those who are counted now as ageless or timeless (in English, anyway) have achieved something extraordinary, where their insight and balance and sensitivity not to their own feelings, but to those of life itself have come together to create beauty. "

IMO, it IS their own feelings, that they have expressed in a way that reflects those of life itself. True poetry is the ability to make the personal universal. I do not claim to have done so- but that is what I am trying. To find that within myself that resonates in others.