Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.