Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

The words secret and sacred are siblings.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?