A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
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.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
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.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Poetry is the deification of reality.