I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.