I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.