It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?