The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
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.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.