The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.