It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.