“Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.”
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It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
I read poetry to save time.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.