The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.