The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
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.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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