The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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