Poetry Is A Man Arguing With Himself;

I Am Talking About Poetry. It's Like That Line From [john] Yeats: I Go Back To "where All The Ladders Start/ In The Foul Rag And Bone Shop Of The Heart."

Do Poets Have Any Insight Into What's The Right Ratio? I Doubt It, But I Think That They Can Be Awake To What The Ends Are.

It's Hell Writing And It's Hell Not Writing. The Only Tolerable State Is Having Just Written.

A Movement Got Started For Common Schools, And By The End Of The 19th Century, 91 Percent Of Americans Could Read And Write.

My Suspicion Is That Once You Have Literacy In Place, The Readership Has Not Changed Very Much.