It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
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.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
More modern poetry is written than read.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Poetry is the deification of reality.