You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.