My husband is an economist, and it would drive him up the wall: “Poets are capable of setting people’s hearts on fire with words. You’re going to end up with a revolution on your hands—and then what? How are you going to build democracy? Who’s going to do it? I can already see what your efforts are leading to.” He laughed at me. We ended up getting divorced because of it…But as it turned out, he was right…
