Every old poem is sacred.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Nothing is sacred, right?