Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
No bad man can be a good poet.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.