This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.