Not that I particularly love poetry

Although I respect it greatly

But with poetry you never have to worry about an audience, in my view

Poetry isn’t concerned with “good stories” so much

Poetry is just making words look pretty

Making art for the sake of art

And I have a vain modern tendency to suppose that art has a grander purpose than being a human artifice

That the form itself is I be celebrated and not the petty reader responses

Etc. theory criticism postmodernism etc.