Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
The American public does not know poets exist.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.