As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.