poets who don't read poetry

Here's Portmanteau Poet of the Day Bill Manhire on poets who don’t read poetry:

I have met plenty who declare that they never read other poets: their own pure, original voice might somehow be contaminated. People who talk like that aren't writers. They simply like the idea of calling themselves writers. If you read a hundred poems by Seamus Heaney and write in his influence for a month or even a year or two, that's fine. It may be part of the process of finding out what to do. I don't imagine there are many aspiring screen writers who decide not to go to films on the grounds that the experience may destroy their art. The only person who will never become a writer is the one who doesn't read. Concert pianists listen to music. Great chefs like to eat.

This is from the intro to Mutes and Earthquakes, an anthology of works by writers from Manhire's greatly respected creative writing course at Victoria University, in Wellington, which I would so so love to enrol on!