Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.