Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.
Clearly money has something to do with life.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.