Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
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.