If They Don't Read, If They Don't

We Tend To Be So Bombarded With Information, And We Move So Quickly, That There's A Tendency To Treat Everything On The Surface Level And Process Things Quickly. This Is Antithetical To The Kind Of Openness And Perception You Have To Have To Be Receptive To Poetry.poetry Seems To Exist In A Parallel Universe Outside Daily Life In America.

To Practice Your Scales, So To Speak, In Order Play The Symphony, Is What You Have To Do As A Young Poet.

For Many Years, I Thought A Poem Was A Whisper Overheard, Not An Aria Heard.

It Makes Me Furious To Hear Haters Of All Skin Colors - Especially Christian, Jewish, And Muslim Fundamentalists - Deride Other People Because Of Their Different Beliefs And Lifestyles.

Anyone Can Tell You That How You're Raised As A Child Has A Great Deal To Do With How You Behave As An Adult And Whether You Have Complexes Or Whether You Need To Prove Yourself Or All That Kind Of Stuff And Yet The Mother In A Traditional Family Who Has Raised A Child Never Makes It In The History Books.