Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.