The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.