The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
More modern poetry is written than read.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.