Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time and the drawback if you do not give it your full attention of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.