Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it.

Garth Greenwell
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Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. When a poet writes a poem that does not sell well, he is free from the worry of being rejected by his audience. He can just write what he wants to write and have it published. In other words, as long as he has a good or great poem he will not have to worry as much about whether or not people will pay to read it.

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