Appreciation of poetry, one out of 10 or whatever it might be, is quite alien to what a poet feels about poetry.
I praise the scoring drought, the flying dust the drying creek, the furious animal, that they oppose us still; that we are ruined by the thing we kill.
Only thing I had to treasure was poetry and the knowledge that I was going to be a poet.
The true function of art and culture is to interpret us to ourselves, and to relate us to the country and the society in which we live.
Poetry needs a background in which emotional, as well as material values are given their due weight.