The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.
A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.