Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The American public does not know poets exist.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Poets are born, not paid.
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.