I Didn’t Know That Painters And Writers

Poetry Is The Shadow Cast By Our Streetlight Imaginations.

Don't Patronize The Chain Bookstores. Every Time I See Some Author Scheduled To Read And Sign His Books At A Chain Bookstore, I Feel Like Telling Him He's Stabbing The Independent Bookstores In The Back.

I'm Reading A Book About Romaine Brooks, A Wonderful Painter From Early In The Last Century.

The World Is A Beautiful Place To Be Born Into If You Don't Mind Some People Dying All The Time Or Maybe Only Starving Some Of The Time Which Isn't Half So Bad If It Isn't You.

I Was On Television A Couple Of Years Ago And The Reporter Asked Me, "how Does It Feel Being On Mainstream Media? It's Not Often Poets Get On Mainstream Media." I Said, "well I Think You're The Dominant Media, The Dominant Culture, But You're Not The Mainstream Media. The Mainstream Media Is Still The High Culture Of Intellectuals: Writers, Readers, Editors, Librarians, Professors, Artists, Art Critics, Poets, Novelists, And People Who Think. They Are The Mainstream Culture, Even Though You May Be The Dominant Culture."