The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Poetry is the deification of reality.