Notes: Poets Creed

He talks about how there is no real universal creed he writes by, there are no real specifics in writings or expressions. He goes on to talk about the truly influential figures in his life, emphasizing on his father. In his reflections he realized that it took an entire lifetime to truly understand the influences that set things in motion, the paths he followed in life. He goes on to talk about the advantages of being a reader to a writer. How it is so much more enjoyable to simply be able to read something, and not worry about the responsibility of influencing people, or entire generations. As he goes on he talks about his love for classics, not the adventures or dialogues but his actual character. For him, the feeling behind a piece or poem is more important than the words, or the message. He continues on this train of thought and explains why he never wrote a novel, he feels that they are too padded unlike a poem or short story that gets to the point and is more readable. He closes his article with an interesting circumstance, how in his own country he became an "invisible man"; yet foreign nations revere him and hold him in high esteem.