She Was Poetry

I saw a quote this morning that really grabbed my attention:
"She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet"
The quote was unattributed, so I went looking.  I found that it was the first and last lines of a poem titled Poetry by Alex Collier.  
To me, it was by far the best line in the poem, but here is the whole thing  - the spelling is the author's - so you can judge for yourself - 

She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet.
From the smooth contures of poised metaphores and similies.
She was an art form lusted for centuries.
Mastered from the souls of pain and heart break. She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet.
Molding sculpted words into beautiful masterpeices.
Sex craved similies, form words making love like the wind and the earth.
Metaphors creating depths deeper than her darkerst passions.
For she was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet.
-Alex Collier