But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.