To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poets are like the decathletes of literature.
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Poets take themselves very seriously.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.