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.
“A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”