Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
I did a women's movie and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
