“The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.”
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.