Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.