Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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