The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.