Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
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