The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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