One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
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