The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.