Poetry, like all arts, just exists in people's mind, so one has to have it in the mind to see it. It's all a matter of the mind's perspective.
Since an early age, when I became a poet at 13, I've gone through stages regarding it. Thus, poetry and being a poet has been perceived by me as a necessity, a curse, a matter of survival, something that doesn't exist at all, and even craziness.

I guess that looking at the World and some of its wonders and sorrows one can be a poet seeing them and only being a poet you can really feel them.