If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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.
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
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