That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.