It's the finest addiction there is, writing a poem every day. It's healthy. You say one wise thing and a door opens to more of them.
I'd been looking at it the wrong way. You don't go and study poetry, you go and do it. Your friends will accept that of you.
Writing of any sort has a learning process, periods of doing studies. So if I were to write something putting myself down or being gloomy about something, it's simply part of the larger process. It's part of gaining perspective on something that is more meaningful, deeper.
And if you don't write a poem everyday then you get too worried about grocery lists and stuff.
Write a poem and you get that "getting and spending we lay waste our powers" thing.