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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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.
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.