The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.