One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
Poets take themselves very seriously.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
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.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Always be a poet, even in prose.