poetry is rather a matter of life than art

I use to say that poetry is rather a matter of life than art. I believe in this idea. I think that it is more important that a poet should have the capacity to notice the very facts of life than to be able to "arrange" some words on a paper sheet. If a poet can see and understand life, then that poet will be able to write. Technically, writing can be learned, which is not the case with the capacity to see and understand. That is because poetry works with images, feelings, things and also because words are just a kind of material support, something that a poet uses with the goal to reach somewhere else.