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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
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.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
God is the perfect poet.
No bad man can be a good poet.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.