Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
A picture is a poem without words.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.