Literal language is functional, and is a utility, serving the purpose of communication, while poetry captures the beauty, the essence of an object, doing away with the descriptions and linear definitions.

The creative nature of consciousness can be described by the analogy of a canvas. Our...

Before you speak, look at your audience with a slight smile and take 3 quiet, deep breaths. 

Then, when the silence becomes the blank canvas on which you will paint your masterpiece, begin.