Shorten the odds by looking beyond artistic creation. Poetry and money. Eight advantages of poetry over other literary forms. Poetry as the language closest to human experience. Poetry reconciles us to the world.
Poetry is among the most demanding and satisfying of human creations.
The special mode of knowledge claimed by poetry - an essential, full and vital representation of the world where other representations are abstract and abbreviated. Need for realism and fortitude. Trials and pleasures of the literary life. More a calling than career. Art as a substitute for religion.