Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.