Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No bad man can be a good poet.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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.'
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.