Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Death's long anabasis.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.