A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
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.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.