All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling" what do you think?

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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling"
-Oscar Wilde

I don't read enough poetry to know, but what do you think of this quote?

do not go gently into that night by dylan thomas, the raven by edger allen poe, mr tambourine man by bob dylan are some of my favorite lyrics and they seem pretty not genuine.
 
Oscar Wilde has a way of saying what is true in a manner which is deceptive. What he means is you don't become a great baseball player by "loving" baseball you get there by "practicing" baseball. It doesn't mean sincerity is a bad thing or it is even necessary, but it invests bad writers with a false feeling of confidence and good writers with a false sense of relevance. Better to be relevant and good than confident and self-inflated.

Wilde just describes it in the most severe style, which of course is ironic because when he says it in that way, he is not being sincere, but rather artistic.
 
I think ALL poetry springs from genuine feeling. Whether it's good or bad. Or if the feeling is "silly" and ends up as a limerick or just a bunch of lines that rhyme for rhyme's sake.
 
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