“I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.”
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.