But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.
Appreciation of poetry, one out of 10 or whatever it might be, is quite alien to what a poet feels about poetry.
Only thing I had to treasure was poetry and the knowledge that I was going to be a poet.
Poetry needs a background in which emotional, as well as material values are given their due weight.