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.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.