Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.