I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.