What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.