Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.