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Continue to ChatWhen people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having. - Eileen Myles from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/when-people-decide-to-talk-publicly-about-poetry-as-an-art-form-and-how-it-s-received-they-often-get-very