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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.