Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
A really good poem is full of music.
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
