Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.