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

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

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

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

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

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.