Who can tell me what modern poets think about poetry (famous quotes)

Only the poet, disdaining to be bound by this obedience, but inspired by his own innovative spirit, in choosing something better than what nature has produced...actually rises to another level. Kind of natural…. (Sidney)

Poets are people with strong imaginations who can be moved and amazed by the monsters they create.

——"Selected Western Literary Essays"

Poetry requires some strong, brutal, and rough spirit.

Homer, Virgil, Tasso, and Milton wrote almost entirely by their own genius. A bunch of rules and restrictions only hinder the development of these great people, and will not help those who lack talent. (Voltaire)

Neither Homer nor Veran could show how the richness of their fantasies and at the same time the fertile ideas of their thoughts arose and were brought together in their minds. (Kant)

Everything in human beings is dominated by the powerful genius of (Shakespeare), the English poet.

Genius is not like art appreciation. Genius is judged by great achievements, not by brilliant performance. The result must be the creative aesthetic form that begins with understanding and reaches its most mature peak state. Whether a genius devotes his whole life to creating immortal results is irrelevant.

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The poet has a divine talent and a clear and compact wisdom.

A poet’s best talent comes after he is 30 years old.

To be sure, the love of the great poet is tenacious, bold and wild.

——(The Dance of Life) Page 66

For a poet, if he does not have a passionate lover and compassionate heart, his point of view If he falls in love with the limitations of the narrow circle of "high-class people" and cannot extricate himself, then no matter how many tricks he has, it will be of no avail.

——"The Biography of Andersen" page 255