You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
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.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.