Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.