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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I read poetry to save time.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.