In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former will give you no real indication of their true opinion of the merits of the poem, while the latter shall reject it out of hand, or be entirely unsatisfied until you write it to their liking. Neither are worth paying attention to.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.