Poetic Obligation and Burden

Joseph Brodsky wrote that "If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to the level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion." and I think I might agree.