Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
“I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.”
“If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.”