Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
Men expect too much, do too little.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.