The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
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.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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.