Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to bury anything in poetry.
So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.