Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.