But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
So the lover must struggle for words.