Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.
Life is adventure, not predicament.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.