America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.