If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
From Peter Davison
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
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