The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.