The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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.
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.