All great art contains an element of the irrational.
I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.