No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.