If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.