As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.