You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.