Make Your Mind Learn Its Way Around

A Lot Of Manuscripts That Come In, You Wonder By What Outrageous Fantasy The Author Believes That This Should Be Pressed Into Print.

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.

Poetry Is Eternal Graffiti Written In The Heart Of Everyone.

Paperbacks Weren't Considered Real Books In The Book Trade. Up Till Then It Was Just Murder Mysteries, Potboilers, 25-cent Pocket Books Sold In Newsstands. When The New York Publishers Started Publishing Quality Paperbacks, There Was No Place To Buy Them.

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."