The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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 leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.