Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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