A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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