A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
Poets sing our human music for us.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.