The poet is a man with rich imagination, and he will be moved and amazed by the monsters he created.
-"Selected Western Literary Theories"
Poetry needs some strong, savage and rough verve.
Homer, Virgil, Tasso and Milton were almost all created by their own geniuses. A lot of rules and regulations will only hinder the development of these great men and will not help those who lack talent. (Voltaire)
Neither Homer nor Whelan can show how their imaginative and rich ideas came into being and merged together from their minds. (Kant)
Everything about mankind is dominated by the great genius of this English poet.
Genius is not like artistic appreciation. Genius is judged by great achievements, not by brilliant performance. The result must be a creative aesthetic form that begins with understanding and reaches the most mature peak. It doesn't matter whether a genius spends his whole life creating that immortal achievement.
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Poets have divine talent and clear and compact wisdom.
The best talent of a poet is after the age of 30.
To be sure, the great poet's love desire is tenacious, bold and wild.
-(Dance of Life) Page 66
For a poet, no matter how many unique skills he has, if he doesn't have a passionate lover and compassion for others, his views are too limited to extricate himself from the narrow circle of "gentlemen", which is of no help.
-biography of Andersen, p. 255.