My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
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.