Question : PGP security

As a complete novice in the are of encryption, and much else in life I would be grateful for some advice on the following:-

I have a public and private key pair based on a 35 character pass phrase similar in make up to:-

@IERles8lA0oufO?$!-v#@ni+tiaChoechi

How safe is it to publish the public key on my website for people to use to encrypt files being sent to me?

Answer : PGP security

http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

>>Anyone with a copy of your public key can then encrypt information that only you can read. Even people you have never met.

It is computationally infeasible to deduce the private key from the public key. Anyone who has a public key can encrypt information but cannot decrypt it.<<