I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
My father's a preacher my mother's a teacher thus I rhyme.
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
