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/^t/Moreover, for some people poetry may be only associated with school. At one time in their life they were forced to read poems and interpret them, and they may have not liked it, so after finishing school they are happy to leave it behind them. In their memories poems are seen as something usually difficult and hard to understand. They prefer to leave poetry aside, and thus, according to them, poets are not needed. There has been published enough books on poetry so far, so why waste more time, paper and money to publish more if they are not going to read these books.