One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets take themselves very seriously.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.