I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.