A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.