We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The American public does not know poets exist.
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.