The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry all that he has learned about poetry is only a partial assurance.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.
