As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a career but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
