Poets take themselves very seriously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.