Poetry?

[Collapsed We Swear]

1. The general answer is I like poetry and all forms of art because they can create intense feeling. The more accurate but (somehow) less clear answer is I can like poetry and all forms of art for an infinite number of reasons that can be specific to one poem or other piece of art. Specifically with poetry, I often like abstract expressions of feeling using concrete images and sensations.

2. I don't really like writing poetry very much for the most part. It takes effort and I am lazy. I find making music much funner. I write poetry because I think I'm better with words than music, and I would like to make something I like and think is objectively (but even more importantly, subjectively) interesting and full of feeling. Working to make things I like is how I would spend most of my time in an ideal world, but I think of writing as work, not pleasure (albeit rewarding work). 

3. I like art therefore I make it.

There is my long and pretentious answer - but it's impossible not to be pretentious talking about whys.

I don't think it's pretentious, at all.