Poetry, like mathematics, is something you do. You can talk about it all day, but eventually you’ll have to get your hands dirty and develop a taste. You don’t

Poetry, like mathematics, is something you do. You can talk about it all day, but eventually you’ll have to get your hands dirty and develop a taste. You don’t have to but it helps to get your hands dirty. Once you develop a taste, you begin to look for others who have similar taste. It’s possible you haven’t found your taste yet. It’s common for mathematicians to only have taste for particular branches of math. Poets and those who like poetry are the same way.