That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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.
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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