The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.