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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— John Barton

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

— Walt Whitman

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

— Octavio Paz

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.

— Orson F. Whitney

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

✗Opposing Perspectives

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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.

— William Hazlitt