I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
“But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.”
“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”