A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.